“A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”
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James Russell Lowell The Present Crisis
St. 18
The Present Crisis (1844)
Context: New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth
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Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea,
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Letter http://www.eapoe.org/works/letters/p4801040.htm to George W. Eveleth, Jan. 4, 1848.
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