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I value my garden more for being full of blackbird

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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

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Let freedom never perish in your hands.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Gr

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The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years;
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amid the war of elements,
The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind

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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection

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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humani

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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

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Let freedom never perish in your hands.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that im

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

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