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Nursed by stern men with empires in their brains.

In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.

Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.

Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?

Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.

An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went.

The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.

Oh, Washington! thou hero, patriot sage, Friend of all climes, and pride of every age!

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hand of toil!