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Our life contains a thousand springs,
And dies if one be gone.
Strange that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long.


William Billings

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"It might to keep it open.
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...
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And feel it on my palate
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In your sleep
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I write our names ...
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Coming to the tree
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JOSH BILLINGS A sekret ceases to be a sekret if it iz once confided - it iz like a dollar bill, once broken, it iz...
JOSH BILLINGS The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
JOSH BILLINGS Credit is like chastity, they can both stand temptation better than suspicion
JOSH BILLINGS Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
JOSH BILLINGS If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
JOSH BILLINGS I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, an...
JOSH BILLINGS Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawf...
JOSH BILLINGS I think he was very ahead of his time in his thinking because he could see what we were doing to Mot...
ALICE BILLINGS It went on for 15 years. It started out feeding 400 a week with supplemental food. It ended up feedi...
ALICE BILLINGS He came in sixth. They only took the top three.
ALICE BILLINGS It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
JOSH BILLINGS It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours to...
JOSH BILLINGS A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, better not strike at it
JOSH BILLINGS Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once
JOSH BILLINGS The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are
JOSH BILLINGS In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worshi...
JOSH BILLINGS Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughe...
JOSH BILLINGS The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -Josh Billin...
JOSH BILLINGS There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Bill...
JOSH BILLINGS Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it get...
JOSH BILLINGS In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else.
JOSH BILLINGS Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal
JOSH BILLINGS The less we know the more we suspect
JOSH BILLINGS Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and four times he who gets his fist in fust
JOSH BILLINGS Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
JOSH BILLINGS There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins
JOSH BILLINGS To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
JOSH BILLINGS Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
JOSH BILLINGS Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer ...
JOSH BILLINGS Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughe...
JOSH BILLINGS Laffing iz the sensation ov pheeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot
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