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James Gates Percival Quotes: Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.
         

Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.


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Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.



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The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.



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The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!



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I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.



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There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever.



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In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers, On its leaves a mystic language bears.



The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety and pleasure.

The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety and pleasure.



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There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.



Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts.

Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts.





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