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To my sister

Night comes with love upon the [B??? CROSSED OUT]

and the ship[']s bell strikes [???] ten

I start to hear it beat for then

I know that thou art on thy knees

And at that hour wherever thou be

Ascends to heaven a prayer for me.

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My mother

My mother[']s voice! How often creeps

Its cadence on my lonely hours

Like healing sent on wings of sleep

Or dew to the unconscious flowers

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I find the reason of the weather

Being so much colder in winter

in New York than in the shores

of the Pacific in the same Latt [LATITUDE] °

is caused by the wind passing over

the Great Lakes

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He that is sensible of no evil but what he feels has a hard heart

He that receives a benifit [BENEFIT] without being thankful robs the giver of his just reward

The higher a man is exalted above others in power, the more he should excell [EXCEL] them in virtue

Flattery is like fake money, and were it not for our own vanity it won[']t never pass in payment

By endeavoring to purchase the reputation of being wity [WITTY] we often loose [LOSE] the advantage of being thought [???]