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Excerpt from Valedictory Address Delivered at the Fifteenth Annual Commencement of the Hahnemannian Institute of Philadelphia: March 1st, 1865
We have come together this evening to celebrate the fifteenth annual commencement of the Institute; and you have done me the honor to appoint me to deliver the few words of parting, on an occasion which, to all of us, is one of sadness as well as joy. Of sadness, because we know that we shall never all meet again this side the grave; that when we give the parting shake of the hand, and gaze into each other's eyes - now radiant with hope and beaming with the light of living souls - it will be a final parting and a last look. Of joy, because we go home to our friends, our wives and children, from whom we have been long separated, and because h0pe sings a joyful song to willing, trustful hearts.
The contemplation of the bright future - enchanting and beau tiful in the distance as the rainbow in the heavens, with its full golden realization ever eluding our grasp, like the pot of gold, said to be hidden where the rainbow touches the earth - makes this a joyous occasion.
While more or less bright anticipations gladden our thoughts, many of us are doomed to sad and sorrowful disappointments, while some of us may reap, in the harvest field of life, a greater' abundance of the golden fruit than our fondest hopes now picture to us.
We should remember that much of our future success or failure will depend upon what preparations we have made, and how we start out in the journey.
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