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What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,—generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

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O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother;
where pity dwells, the peace of God is there.

Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
But spare your country's flag," she said.

Barbara Frietchie (1863)

The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.

When faith is lost, when honor dies
The man is dead!

Life is ever lord of Death
And Love can never lose its own.

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