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Quotes by Theodore Tilton

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Baby bye Here’s a fly, Let us watch him. you and I, How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls.
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Baby bye Here's a fly, Let us watch him. you and I, How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls.
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In all our losses, all our gains, In all our pleasures, all our pains, The life of life is: Love remains. In every change from good to ill,- If love continues still, Let happen then what will.
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Once in Persia reigned a king Who upon his signet ring Graved a maxim true and wise, Which if held before the eyes Gave him counsel at a glance Fit for every change and chance. Solemn words, and these are they: "Even this shall pass away."
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I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My lofty name.
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Pleasure comes, but not to stay;Even this shall pass away.
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Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience, day by day, Even this shall pass away.
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Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.
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But I account it worth All pangs of fair hopes crost All loves and honors lost, To gain the heavens, at cost Of losing earth
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The more we study human nature, the less we think of men - the more of man
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