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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

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

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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 22nd, 1819

Died: August 12th, 1891

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