"Under the yaller pines I house, When sunshine makes 'em all sweet-scented, An' hear among their furry boughs The baskin' west-wind purr contented."

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"It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled."

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"Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy."

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

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"He gives us the very quintessence of perception,--the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory."

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"A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic."

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

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"The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in."

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"But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet Lessen like sound of friends' departing feet; And Death is beautiful as feet of friend Coming with welcome at our journey's end. For me Fate gave, whate'er she else denied, A nature sloping to the southern side; I thank her for it, though when clouds arise Such natures double-darken gloomy skies."

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"Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how."

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"The clear, sweet singer with the crown of snow Not whiter than the thoughts that housed below."

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"Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story."

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

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"Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not."

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"His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle."

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"I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest."

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"There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded."

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"Ez to my princerples, I glory In hevin' nothin' o' the sort."

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"And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays."

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"Nature fits all her children with something to do."

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"The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm from floor to ceilin'."

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"Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts."

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"To win the secret of a weed's plain heart."

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"Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'Ith no one nigh to hender."

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"All kin' o' smily round the lips, An' teary round the lashes."

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"A sound so fine, there 's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence."

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"Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust."

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"Death calls ye to the crowd of common men."

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"The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hands on kings."

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"I saw them go: one horse was blind, The tails of both hung down behind, Their shoes were on their feet."

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"Lax in their gaiters, laxer in their gait."

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"No Drury Lane for you to-day."

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"An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!"

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"Plac'd far amid the melancholy main."

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"Ships dim-discover'd dropping from the clouds."

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"O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns, And heightens ease with grace."

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"There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead."

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"But yonder comes the powerful king of day, Rejoicing in the east."

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"A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky: There eke the soft delights that witchingly Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast, And the calm pleasures always hover'd nigh; But whate'er smack'd of noyance or unrest Was far, far off expell'd from this delicious nest."

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"Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most."

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"For many a day, and many a dreadful night, Incessant lab'ring round the stormy cape."

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"But who can paint Like Nature? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?"

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"So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, The mingled beauties of exulting Greece."

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"Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise, of health."

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"A little round, fat, oily man of God."

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"These as they change, Almighty Father! these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee."

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"Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise."

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"See, Winter comes to rule the varied year."

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"Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come."

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"The kiss, snatch'd hasty from the sidelong maid."

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