"The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman."
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"Tyranny is always weakness"
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"One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers."
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"Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din."
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"Those who love are but one step from heaven."
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"New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression."
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"Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma."
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"Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!"
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"What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!" And voices chanted clear and sweet, "To-day the Prince of Peace is born."
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"Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter."
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"O reputation! dearer far than life."
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"All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it"
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"Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet."
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"Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past."
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"The New World's sons from England's breast we drew Such milk as bids remember whence we came, Proud of her past wherefrom our future grew, This window we inscribe with Raleigh's fame."
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"Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us."
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"Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought or feeling a thousand times repeated becomes his at last who utters it best."
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"A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow."
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"'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking."
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"Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw."
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