By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.
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Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
All life is an experiment.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
The years teach much which the days never knew.
All mankind love a lover.
Men are what their mothers made them.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
He who has a thousand friendsHas not a friend to spare,While he who has one enemyShall meet him everywhere.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.