There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy.
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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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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
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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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As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new,-and near the end The milestones into headstones change, 'Neath every one a friend.
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As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
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