William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.
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“Pure was thy life; its bloody closeHath placed thee with the sons of light,Among the noble host of thoseWho perished in the cause of Right.”
William Cullen Bryant
“Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign”
“Nor heed the shaft too surely cast, The foul and hissing bolt of scorn; For with thy side shall dwell, at last, The victory of endurance born”
“Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger”
“Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness”