Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass … - John James Ingalls

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Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.

John James Ingalls

Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal. . . Its tenacious fibers hold the earth in place and prevent its soluble components from washing to the wasting sea.

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Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties".

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Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown, like rural lanes and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.

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In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

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Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in.

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Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

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