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beautiful object and the Montauk a noble
TIMON OF ATHENS A ship with her sails loosened and her ensign abroad is always a beautiful object; and the Montauk, a noble New-York-built vessel of seven hundred tons burthen, was a first-class specimen of the "kettle-bottom" school of naval architecture, wanting in nothing that the taste and experience of the day can supply.
— from Homeward Bound; Or, the Chase: A Tale of the Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

by ourselves at the moment and not
Ten words actually made by ourselves at the moment, and not remembered, are a real prayer; for it is not hypocrisy that is the most common danger; our temper, when we are on our knees, is apt indeed to be careless, but not, I hope and believe, deceitful.
— from The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps by Thomas Arnold

be of all that makes a nation
Serene and beautiful it waves, the flag our fathers knew; in Freedom's sunny air it laves, and gains a brighter hue; and may it still the symbol be of all that makes a nation free; still may we cherish Liberty, and to our God be true.
— from Uncle Walt [Walt Mason], the Poet Philosopher by Walt Mason

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