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“Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.”

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It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

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Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the…

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Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while…

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My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing…

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Love is indestructible. It's holy flame forever burneth; from Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth.

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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing;…

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Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

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Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

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Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

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Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.

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A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

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Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep,…

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If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy,…

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Our actions today will protect children from the adverse effects of exposure to pesticides commonly used on foods. The agency also is on schedule…

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In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.

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