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Native goodness is unconscious, asks not to be recognized; But its baser affectation is a thing to be despised. Only when the man is loyal to himself shall he be prized. * * * * * If I live the life He gave me, God will turn it to His use.
Native goodness is unconscious, asks not to be recognized; But its baser affectation is a thing to be despised. Only when the man is loyal to himself shall he be prized. * * * * * If I live the life He gave me, God will turn it to His use.
Approximate author period: c. 1851 AD · industrial
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- Bayard Taylor
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- Approximate author period: c. 1851 AD · industrial
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 366; printed byline: Bayard Taylor; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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