"An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run."
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"Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light."
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"Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no."
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"Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave."
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"Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling."
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"It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further."
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"Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold."
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"But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end."
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"Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then"
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"For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions."
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"Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side."
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"Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own."
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"Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache."
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"Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward."
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"A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes."
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"I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them."
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"O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts new-born! That Pentecost when utterance clear To all men shall be given, When all shall say My Brother here, And hear My Son in heaven!"
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"Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!"
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"Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face."
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"In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain."
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