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Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
Speech is silvern, silence is golden.
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my read more
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which
I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship
them:
Then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given
them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I
cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all people:
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath
the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my read more
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If the old dog barke he gives counsell.
If the old dog barke he gives counsell.
Originality provokes originality.
Originality provokes originality.
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
He that sowes trusts in God.
He that sowes trusts in God.
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.