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He is not dead, he is just - away.
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The ripest peach is highest on the tree
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Fruit
Peaches
Tree
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The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
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Highest
Tree
Peach
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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
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Anger
Time Always Person
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Just a wee cot-the crickets chirr-love and the smiling face of her.
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Love
Faces
Justice
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To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.
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Faces
Friendly
World
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Think of him still as the same, I say, He is not dead, he is just - away.
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Death Of A Loved One
Loved Ones
Thinking
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Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strewberries melts On the vine.
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June
Long
Summer
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O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.
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Bumps
Musk
Swirls
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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
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Nature
Bird
Walks
Call
Duck
Like A Duck
See
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Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
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Motivational
Determination
Discouraged
Effort
Persistence
Continuous
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O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.
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Autumn
Fall
Heart
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One naked star has waded through The purple shallows of the night, And faltering as falls the dew It drips its misty light.
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Fall
Night
Stars
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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.
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Horse
Said
Tails
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Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.
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Running
Drawing
Sweet
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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.
James Whitcomb Riley / Writer
Easy
Positive Attitude
Rain
Rejoice
Weather
Cheap
Choice
Complain
Grumble
Sends
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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.
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Motivational
Determination
Discouragement
Energy
Enthusiasm
Perseverance
Persistence
Most
Come
Allow
Never
Essential
Factor
Must
Inevitably
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Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. It's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, And hovering above them ... is a fairy cupid tangled in a scarf of poetry.
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Valentine
Baby
Rose
Tangled
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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!
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June
Long
Summer
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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.
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Hair
Rainbow
Tangled
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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.
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Life
Design
Albums
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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.
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Morning
Air
Autumn
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I don't know how to tell it--but ef such a thing could be As the angels wantin' boardin', and they'd call around on me-- I'd want to 'ccommodate 'em--all the whole-in-durin' flock-- When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.
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Angel
Ems
Frost
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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!
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Food
Aunt
Sweet
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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.
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Curiosity
Friendly
Hands
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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.
James Whitcomb Riley / Writer
Morning
Time
Discovery
Toiling
Worthy
Years Ago
General
Awaken
Discovered
Striving
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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.
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Death
Dream
Husband
Thinking
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