They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

James Russell Lowell
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  2. Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
  3. Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
  4. In creating the only hard thing's to begin
  5. A wise man travels to discover himself.
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