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• Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
• We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.…
• I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
• We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's…
• The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white…
• I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it…
• Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
• What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions…
• The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it…
• Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the…
• The best servant does his work unseen.
• See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

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