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Speak with the speech of the world think with the thoughts of the few.

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John Hay
Age: 66 †
Born: 1838
Born: October 8
Died: 1905
Died: July 1
Biographer
Diplomat
Former United States Secretary Of State
Historian
Journalist
Politician
Secretary
Writer
Salem
Indiana
John Milton Hay
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The people will come to their own at last,-God is not mocked forever.
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Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.
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Break not the rose its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel.
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Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.
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Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.
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The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
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The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.
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There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.
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