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I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own Is a derned sight better business Th...

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Make all good men your well-wishers and then in the years' steady sifting some of them will turn ...

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Friends are the sunshine of life.

True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table luckiest he who knows just when to ri...

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The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their frie...

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And there, next to me, as the east wind blows in early fall, a season open to great migrations, are ...

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The Way to the Salt Marsh: A John Hay Reader

This beach I voyage on leads me through the earth's immortal consistencies. Each form I encounter ob...

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In a society so estranged from animals as ours, we often fail to credit them with any form of langua...

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A Beginner's Faith in Things Unseen

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John Hay

Former United States Secretary of State

Born: 1838-10-08

Died: 1905-07-01

John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838 – July 1, 1905) was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln. He served as United States Secretary of State from 1898 to 1905 under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.More