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A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being
interfered with by prayers.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

There was a Sabbath lull in the air, which, in a settlement unused to Sabbath influences, looked ominous.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my own.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!

Each lost day has its patron saint!

But, when the goddess' work is done,The woman's still remains.

Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still.

The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.

Which I wish to remark
And my language is plain,
That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.