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Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty! - Lucy La

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty! – Lucy Larcom

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Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. – Lucy Larcom

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Adversity
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Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays…. The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism? – Henry Ward Beecher

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They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes – Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth. – W.J. Cameron

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Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. – Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

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So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable — any real insight or broad human sentiment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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