Lincoln Literary Collection, Designed for School-room and Family Circle: Containing More Than Six Hundred Favorite Selections in Prose and Poetry, Sections for Arbor Day, Bird Day, Decoration Day, Days with the Poets, EtcJohn Piersol McCaskey |
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... hope , and never sinking with the mercurial in hours of defeat to the depth of despondency , he held on with unmovable patience and forti- tude , putting caution against hope that it might not be pre- mature , and hope against caution ...
... hope , and never sinking with the mercurial in hours of defeat to the depth of despondency , he held on with unmovable patience and forti- tude , putting caution against hope that it might not be pre- mature , and hope against caution ...
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... hope ; we are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth , and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts . Is this the part of wise men engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty ? Are we disposed to ...
... hope ; we are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth , and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts . Is this the part of wise men engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty ? Are we disposed to ...
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... hope of peace and reconciliation . There is no longer any room for hope . If we wish to be free , if we wish to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending , if we mean not basely to abandon ...
... hope of peace and reconciliation . There is no longer any room for hope . If we wish to be free , if we wish to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending , if we mean not basely to abandon ...
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... hope and despondency , pleasure and pain , We mingle together in sunshine and rain ; And the smile and the tear , and the song and the dirge , Still follow each other , like surge upon surge . ' Tis the wink of an eye , ' tis the ...
... hope and despondency , pleasure and pain , We mingle together in sunshine and rain ; And the smile and the tear , and the song and the dirge , Still follow each other , like surge upon surge . ' Tis the wink of an eye , ' tis the ...
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... hope , -one wish beyond the present hour ? How shall we measure life ? Not by the years , — The months , the days , -the moments that we pass On earth . By him whose soul is raised above Base worldly things , -- whose heart is fixed in ...
... hope , -one wish beyond the present hour ? How shall we measure life ? Not by the years , — The months , the days , -the moments that we pass On earth . By him whose soul is raised above Base worldly things , -- whose heart is fixed in ...
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