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Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.
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A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
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