BUSH II, SHALL PASS

"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! -- how consoling in the depths of affliction!"

-An Address by Abraham Lincoln Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, September 30, 1859

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