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• With filial confidence inspired, Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, And smiling say, My Father made them all!
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book v, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 745...
• I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving
  o reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor....
• I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving
  o reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor....
• I am as a weed Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, Stanza 2...
• Tis hard if all is false that I advance. A fool must now and then be right by chance.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 96...
• We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all. -- William Reece Smith, Jr.
• All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars.
  -- Kirk, "The Gamesters of Triskelion," stardate 3259.2....
• The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- To an Afflicted Protestant Lady...
• T is Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- A Fable, Moral...