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The architect
Built his great heart into these sculptured stones,
And with him toiled his children, and their lives
Were builded, with his own, into the walls,
As offerings unto God.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

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They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast,
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Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.

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