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Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

~John Greenleaf Whittier

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For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

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All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

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I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.

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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

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Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

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The smile of God is victory.

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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

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When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

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Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: December 17th, 1807

Died: September 7th, 1892

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