Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.

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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

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