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 Fresh feres will dry the bright blue eye
 We late saw streaming o'er.  
 Fresh feres will dry the bright blue eye
 We late saw streaming o'er. 
Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.
Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.
 How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
 Makes ill deeds done.  
 How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
 Makes ill deeds done. 
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
Comparisons are odious.
Comparisons are odious.
 He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, 
is not credited even when he speaks the truth.  
 He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, 
is not credited even when he speaks the truth. 
Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.
Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.
 For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs,
 Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter.  
 For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs,
 Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter.