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Odell Shepard Biography

Odell Shepard (July 22, 1884 in Sterling, Illinois – July 19, 1967 in New London, Connecticut) was an American professor, poet, and politician who was the 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1941 to 1943. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938.

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For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.

Battle, Make, Prayer, Thanks, Thanksgiving, Victory

One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.

Feet, Fire, Hands, Warms, Worthily

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

Day, Justice, Man, Men, Test, Wise

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so. . . their position is almost laughably hopeless.

Hopeless, People, Static, Strive

The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists, for both the god and the unicorn had a business to perform greater than any mere existence in the flesh could explain or provide a basis for.

Basis, Flesh, God, Historicity, Matter, May

There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn -- noble, chaste, fierce yet beneficent, altruistic though solitary, strangely beautiful -- is the clearest exception of all. The unicorn was not conceived in fear. Our early sense of Nature's majestry and mysetery is revealed in him.

Beautiful, Conceived, Exceptions, Facts, Nature, Noble

If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them.

Doe, Equator, Forever, Line, Snow

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