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The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow.— filed under History
Parsonage. Afterthought. Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.— filed under Bright Of Disraeli
The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.— filed under Money
Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.— filed under Prudence
Will. But the whip-poor-will wails on the moor, And day has deserted the west: The moon glimmers down thro' the vines at my door And the robin has flown to her nest. JAMES G, CLARKE-The Wood-Robin. The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowi.— filed under Birds-Thrush
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription moulders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?— filed under Decay