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The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it the beech shrieks the elm sends forth a long, deep groan the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish.
Thomas Starr King
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Thomas Starr King
Age: 39 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 17
Died: 1864
Died: March 4
Politician
New York City
New York
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By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thinkers of the world, we need not live on the marsh and in the mists. The slopes and ridges invite us.
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The fact is, that of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color, is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. We speak rashly of gay color and sad color, for color cannot at once be good and gay. All good color is in some degree pensive, the loveliest is melancholy, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.
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It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.
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Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.
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Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.
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What a privilege it is to be an American!
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