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Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it. - [Cheerfulness] Let heaven-eyed Prudence battle with Desire. - [Economy] The sky is blue above, And cool the green sod lies below; It is the hour that claims for love The halcyon moments as they flow. - [Twilight] What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle. - [Youth] How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its over passport round the globe. - Courtesy [Courtesy] "Paint me as I am," said Cromwell, "Rough with age and gashed with wars; Show my visage as you find it, Less than truth my soul abhors." - On a Portrait of Cromwell [Painting] A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm. - The Lucky Horseshoe [Luck] "I'm an owl: you're another. Sir Critic, good day." And the barber kept on shaving. - The Owl-Critic [Criticism]
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