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In The Great And Deep Qualities Of Mind, Heart, And Soul, There Is No Change. Homer And Solomon Speak To The Same Nature In Man That Is Reached By Shakespeare And Lincoln. But In The Accidents, The Surroundings, The Change Is Vast. All Things Now Are Mobile--movable.

Virtue Is Defined To Be Mediocrity, Of Which Either Extreme Is Vice.

Fighting Battles Is Like Courting Girls: Those Who Make The Most Pretensions And Are Boldest Usually Win.

I Have A Talent For Silence And Brevity. I Can Keep Silent When It Seems Best To Do So, And When I Speak I Can, And Do Usually, Quit When I Am Done. This Talent, Or These Two Talents, I Have Cultivated. Silence And Concise, Brief Speaking Have Got Me Some Laurels, And, I Suspect, Lost Me Some. No Odds. Do What Is Natural To You, And You Are Sure To Get All The Recognition You Are Entitled To.

My Father And Mother In 1817 Were Forty-nine Days On The Road With Their Emigrant Wagons [from Vermont] To Ohio. More Than Two Days For Each Hour That I Spent In The Same Journey.