A Parting Guest What delightful hosts are they— Life and Love! Lingeringly I turn away, This late hour, yet glad enough They have not withheld from me Their high hospitality. So, with face lit with delight And all gratitude, I stay Yet to press their hands and say, Thanks.—So fine a time! Good night.
タグ: poetry, funeral, death

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When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.
タグ: down, time, you, morning
The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
タグ: highest, tree
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
タグ: see, like, bird, nature
It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.
タグ: choice, weather, rain, god
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
タグ: your, energy, persistence, determination
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