That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort … - Harriet Beecher Stowe

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It is worth remembering that our cities occupy important sites, and therefore some kind of settlement is liable to be there.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.

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Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

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My vocation to preach on paper.

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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

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