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The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

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Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

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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.

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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

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Light is the symbol of truth.

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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

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The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 22nd, 1819

Died: August 12th, 1891

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