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The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.

The worst men often give the best advice.

America! half brother of the world! With something good and bad of every land.

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

Blessing star forth forever; but a curse Is like a cloud--it passes.

Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.

'Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.

Defining night by darkness, death by dust.

Our similarities are different.

The long days are no happier than the short ones.

Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.

The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's Larger than this we leave, and lovelier. And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect, The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves. The will of God is all in all. He makes, Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.

The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.

Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow.

England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.