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James Whitcomb Riley

James Whitcomb Riley (October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916) was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect. His famous works include "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man".

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Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Determination, Let, Man, Motivational, Persistence, Unflagging

I love the horse from hoof to head. From head to hoof and tail to mane. I love the horse as I have said - From head to hoof and back again.

Horse, Love, Mane, Said, Tails

Tell you what I like the best - 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strawberries melts On the vine, - some afternoon Like to jes' git out and rest, And not work at nothin' else!

Git, Jes, June, Like, Long, Summer

But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days Is a pictur' that no painter has the colorin' to mock-When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

Air, Airly, Autumn, Haze, Morning, Sunny

He is not dead, he is just - away.

Away, Dead, Memorial

Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its honey and its gall, With its cares and bitter crosses, but a good world after all. And a good God must have made it-leastways, that is what I say, When a hand is on my shoulder in a friendly sort of way.

Bitter, Curiosity, Friendly, Gall, Hands, World

O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.

Blooms, Bumps, Dusk, Folded, Musk, Swirls

The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-'preserves' she made! And the sweet-sour pickles of peach and pear, With cinnamon in 'em, and all things rare! And the more we ate was the more to spare, Out to old Aunt Mary's! Ah!

Aunt, Food, Old, Pear, Pickles, Sweet

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.

Complain, Grumble, Positive Attitude, Rain, Weather

As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone, And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known, So I turn the leaves of Fancy, till in shadowy design I find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine.

Albums, Design, Fancy, Known, Life, Old

The ripest peach is highest on the tree

Fruit, Peach, Peaches, Ripest, Tree

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.

Discovery, Morning, Time, Working, Years

Just a wee cot-the crickets chirr-love and the smiling face of her.

Crickets, Face, Faces, Justice, Love, Wee

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.

Determination, Essential, Inevitably, Motivational, Perseverance

And the sun had on a crown Wrought of gilded thistledown, And a scarf of velvet vapor And a raveled rainbow gown; And his tinsel-tangled hair Tossed and lost upon the air Was glossier and flossier Than any anywhere.

Hair, Lost, Rainbow, Sun, Tangled

I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away. With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand, He has wandered into an unknown land And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there. And you - oh you, who the wildest yearn For an old-time step, and the glad return, Think of him faring on, as dear In the love of There as the love of Here. Think of him still as the same. I say, He is not dead - he is just away.

Cheery, Death, Dream, Husband, Return, Say