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Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.

William C. Bryant

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Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice Is that thou utterest while all else is still-- The ancient voice that, centuries ago, Sounded between thy hills, while Rome was yet A weedy solitude by Tiber's stream!
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The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all political institutions is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact, to their existence, that without it we must fall into despotism and anarchy.
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Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue.
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Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?
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Do not the bright June roses blow To meet thy kiss at morning hours?
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Ah, passing few are they who speak, Wild, stormy month! in praise of thee Yet though thy winds are loud and bleak, Thou art a welcome month to me. For thou, to northern lands, again The glad and glorious sun dost bring, And thou hast joined the gentle train And wear'st the gentle name of Spring.
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Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart, And press a suit with passion, Is not a woman's part. If man come not to gather The roses where they stand, They fade among their foliage, They cannot seek his hand.
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The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.
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Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.
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The breath of springtime at this twilight hour Comes through the gathering glooms, And bears the stolen sweets of many a flower Into my silent rooms.
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A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.
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Gently - so have good men taught - Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide Into the new the eternal flow of things, Like a bright river of the fields of heaven, Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.
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Or, bide thou where the poppy blows With windflowers fail and fair.
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A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night.
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All great poets have been men of great knowledge.
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Still sweet with blossoms is the year's fresh prime.
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He [William Henry Harrison] did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President.
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Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
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Tender pauses speak The overflow of gladness, When words are all too weak.
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