It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
James Russell Lowell
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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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