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History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
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history
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Tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.
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self-worth
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!
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lessons
mistakes
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.
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youth
humility
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship these intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of Uncas like drops of falling rain.
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God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it."
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providence
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I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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My day has been too long. In the morning I saw the sons of the Unamis happy and strong; and yet, before the sun has come, have I lived to see the last warrior of the wise race of the Mohicans.
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?
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punishment
justice
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Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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No! You stay alive! Submit, do you hear? You're strong, you survive. You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you . . . (Hawkeye / The Last of the Mohicans) 97
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!
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wealth
youth
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste
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hurry
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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A man without conscience is but a poor creature...
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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Tis a strange calling!' muttered Hawkeye, with an inward laugh, 'to go through life, like a catbird, mocking all the ups and downs that may happen to come out of other men's throats.
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.
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inspirational
zen
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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Nothing but vast wisdom and onlimited power should dare sweep men off in multitudes,' he added; 'for it is only the one that can know the necessity of the judgement; and what is there short of the other, that can replace the creatures of the Lord?
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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The gifts of our colors may be different, but God has so placed us as to journey in the same path.
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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And am I answerable that thoughtless and unprincipled men exist whose shades of contenance may resemble mine?
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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Patience is the greatest of virtues in a woodsman.
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating, if not excusing its crimes.
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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The air, the water, and the ground are free gifts to man, and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man must drink, breath, and walk - and therefore each has a right to his share of earth.
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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I have attended church-service in the garrisons, and tried hard...to join in the prayers...but never could raise within me the solemn feelings and true affection that I feel when alone with God in the forest. There I seem to stand face to face with my Master; all around me is fresh and beautiful, as it came from His hand; and there is no nicety or doctrine to chill the feelings. No no; the woods are the true temple after all, for there the ..
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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We are all human, and all do wrong.
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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When men speak, they should say that which does not go in at one side of the head and out at the other. Their words shouldn't be feathers, so light that a wind which does not ruffle the water can blow them away.
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The arches of the woods, even at high noon, cast their sombre shadows on the spot, which the brilliant rays of the sun that struggled through the leaves contributed to mellow, and if such an expression can be used, to illuminate. It was probably from a similar scene that the mind of man first got its idea of the effects of gothic tracery and churchly hues, this temple of nature producing some such effect, so far as light and shadow were con..
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!
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life
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The deer that goes too often to the lick meets the hunter at last!
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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That of all the 'oracies (aristocracy and democracy included) hypocrisy is the most flourishing.
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satire
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any eye at all practiced in the signs of a frontier warfare, might easily have traced all those unerring evidences of the ruthless results which attends an Indian vengeance. Still, the sun rose on the Lenape a nation of mourners.
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It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.
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sartorial
style-guides
style
dress
fashion
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Walking about streets, going to church of Sundays, and hearing sermons, never yet made a man of a human being. Send the boy out upon the broad ocean, if you wish to open his eyes, and let him look upon foreign nations, or what I call the face of nature, if you wish him to understand his own character.
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Washington, who, after uselessly admonishing the European general of the danger into which he was heedlessly running, saved the remnants of the British army, on this occasion, by his decision and courage. The reputation earned by Washington in this battle was the principal cause of his being selected to command the American armies at a later day. It is a circumstance worthy of observation, that while all A..
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I want no thunder or lightning to remind me of my God, nor am I as apt to bethink on most of all His goodness in trouble and tribulations as on a calm, solemn, quiet day in a forest, when His voice is heard in the creaking of a dead branch or in the song of a bird, as much in my ears at least as it is ever heard in uproar and gales.
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Judith:"And where, then, is your sweetheart, Deerslayer?" Deerslayer: "She's in the forest, Judith - hanging from the boughs of the trees, in a soft rain - in the dew on the open grass - the clouds that float about in the blue heavens - the birds that sing in the woods - the sweet springs where I slake my thirst - and in all the other glorious gifts that come from God's Providence!"
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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I care not for your envy, or your hypocrisy, or even for your human nature.
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. Thus he who has travelled far and seen much is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity. In no other way can we account for the venerable air that is already gathering around American annals. When the mind reverts to the earliest days of colonial history, the period seems remote and obscur..
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that all-seeing eye which reads the heart, could not fail to discriminate between the living and the dead, and the gentle soul of the unfortunate girl was already far removed beyond the errors, or deceptions, of any human ritual.
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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Say to these kind and gentle females, that a heart-broken and failing man returns them his thanks. Tell them, that the Being we all worship, under different names, will be mindful of their charity; and that the time shall not be distant when we may assemble around His throne without distinction of sex, or rank, or color." The"
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught the calculations of reason, and to render those who should have remembered their manhood, the slaves of the basest passions.
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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If a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an udersized opinion of himself.
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self-reliance
pride
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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Men are seldom struck by incongruities in their appearance any more than their own conduct.
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self-awareness
inconsistency
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James Fenimore Cooper |