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Tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?

It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

Where are the blossoms of those summers!-fallen, one by one: so all of my family departed, each in his turn, to the land of the spirits.

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We live in a world of endless transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true.

And am I answerable that thoughtless and unprincipled men exist whose shades of contenance may resemble mine?

For flowers that will bloom in a garden will die on a heath ...

You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!

...nothing that crawls the earth is for my sport.

Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l'arn its lessons.

Come, friend; you are welcome, though your notions are a little blinded with reading too many books.

A man without conscience is but a poor creature ...

I too can play the madman, the fool, the hero; in short, any or everything to rescue her I love.

Even the robin and the martin come back, year after year, to their old nests; shall a woman be less true hearted than a bird?

It should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.

Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.

Else would my scalp long since have been drying in a Mingo wigwam.

A thing which is of no moment itself may be made of importance in the way of competition.

Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!

Has dropped into the river, said Hurry, after looking carefully along

Patience is the greatest of virtues in a woodsman.

They linger yet, Avengers of their native land." - Gray

...that dog is more to be trusted than many a Christian man; for he never forgets a friend, and loves the hand that gives him bread.

Life is sweet, even to the aged; and, for that matter, I've known some that seemed to set much store by it when it got to be of the least value.

Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.

I care not for your envy, or your hypocrisy, or even for your human nature.

When the colony's laws, or even the King's laws, run ag'in the laws of God, they get to be onlawful, and ought not to be obeyed.

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

...the Evil Spirit delights more to dwell in an artful body, than in one that has no cunning to work upon.

...every period of life has its necessities, and at forty-seven it's just as well to trust a little to the head.

We are all human, and all do wrong.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

The deer that goes too often to the lick meets the hunter at last!

Then he was wrong, Hurry; very wrong. A man can enjoy plunder peaceably nowhere.

The woods are but the ears of the Almighty, the air is his breath, and the light of the sun is little more than a glance of his eye.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

The gifts of our colors may be different, but God has so placed us as to journey in the same path.