It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
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One brave deed makes no hero.John Greenleaf Whittier
Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So 'Bonnie Doon' but tarry Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his 'Highland Mary'
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For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
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How dwarfed against his manliness She sees the poor pretension, The wants, the aims, the follies, born Of fashion and convention.
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Through this broad street, restless ever, Ebbs and flows a human tide, Wave on wave a living river; Wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.
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Oh, for boyhood's painless play, Sleep that wakes in laughing day, Health that mocks the doctor's rules, Knowledge never learned of schools.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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