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From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the evil in its nature.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy--onless ye know.

It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors To find out thet it looks like rain arter it fairly pours.

Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained: knowst thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.

Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

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

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

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; . . . . They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.