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No praying, it spoils business.

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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

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Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

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The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

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I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

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She is elegant rather than belle.

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When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing.

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Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

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Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

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I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

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I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

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I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.

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Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

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All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

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After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

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Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

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All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

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Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

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All a poet can do today is warn.

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