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• It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward,…
• Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The…
• And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin.…
• Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
• Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 't is the happy that have called thee so.
• How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the…
• There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.
• The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath…

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