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Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit; For the day never comes when it'll du To kick off dooty like a worn-out shoe.

O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts new-born! That Pentecost when utterance clear To all men shall be given, When all shall say My Brother here, And hear My Son in heaven!

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime-- Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite.

Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.

The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us.

Not what we give, but what we share,-- For the gift without the giver is bare.

This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'ything thet's done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.

When I could not sleep for cold I had fire enough in my brain, And builded with roofs of gold My beautiful castles in Spain!

The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.