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Sewell Van Alstine diary, 1863-1864
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129 The industrious, and virtuous, education of children is a far better inheritance to them than a great estate.--- One fourth of men are capable of bearing arms, but not one of 1,000 is by nature inclined for the profession. An Epigram Truth's in a well!" to get it out, You'll find there's this impediment, That if you blun'dring probe about, You'll stir up doubt - the sediment "If goodness lead us not; yet weariness may toss us to his breast. We do not die wholly at one death, we have mouldered away gradually, long before, faculty after faculty, attachment after attachment disappears; & death only sonsigns the fragment of what we were to the grave, Home may it ever be the center of cheer, Comfort, & enjoyment.
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129 The industrious, and virtuous, education of children is a far better inheritance to them than a great estate.--- One fourth of men are capable of bearing arms, but not one of 1,000 is by nature inclined for the profession. An Epigram Truth's in a well!" to get it out, You'll find there's this impediment, That if you blun'dring probe about, You'll stir up doubt - the sediment "If goodness lead us not; yet weariness may toss us to his breast. We do not die wholly at one death, we have mouldered away gradually, long before, faculty after faculty, attachment after attachment disappears; & death only sonsigns the fragment of what we were to the grave, Home may it ever be the center of cheer, Comfort, & enjoyment.
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