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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

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And the bright faces of my young companions Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more.

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Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

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By the shores of Gitchee Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis, Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

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Let us be merciful as well as just.

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Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

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Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

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Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

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Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin, To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter!

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Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside.

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Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

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The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance.

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All things must change To something new, to something strange.

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

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The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.

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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

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Look at this vigorous plant that lifts its head from the meadow, See how its leaves are turned to the north, as true as the magnet; This is the compass-flower, that the finger of God has planted Here in the houseless wild, to direct the traveller's journey. Over the sea-like, pathless, limitless waste of the desert, Such in the soul of man is faith.

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People demand freedom only when they have no power.

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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

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