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Quotes by Will Carleton

But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.
– Will Carleton
Careful with fire, is good advice, we know: Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God himself can't kill them when they're said.
– Will Carleton
I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.
– Will Carleton
If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.
– Will Carleton
If we who have sailed together flit out of each other's view, the world will sail on, I think, just as it used to do.
– Will Carleton
Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.
– Will Carleton
So I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree.
– Will Carleton
Things at home are crossways, and Betsy and I are out.
– Will Carleton
To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
– Will Carleton
Underneath an apple-tree sat a maiden and her lover; And the thoughts within her he yearned, in silence, to discover. Round them danced the sunbeams bright, green the grass-lawn stretched before them while the apple blossoms white hung in rich profusion o'er them.
– Will Carleton
We arg'ed the thing at breakfast, we arg'ed the thing at tea, And the more we arg'ed the question, the more we didn't agree.
– Will Carleton
Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.
– Will Carleton