"We are always doing something for posterity, but……" — Joseph Addison

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• If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash… — Henry Van Dyke
• Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. — Walter Raleigh
• I would fain die a dry death. — William Shakespeare
• I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them,… — J. G. Holland
• King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest!… — William Shakespeare
• Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg. — Robert Herrick
• What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he… — Frederick William Robertson
• Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war. — Okakura Kakuzo
• In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am… — Henry David Thoreau
• A boy is a long time before he knows his alphabet, longer before he has learned to spell, and perhaps… — Monty Roberts
• When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the… — Thomas Jefferson
• I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in… — Henry David Thoreau

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