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Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

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Now Barabbas was a publisher.

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An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

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Ye are brothers, ye are men, and we conquer but to save.

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I'll meet the raging of the skies, but not an angry father.

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While memory watches o'er the sad review of joys that faded like the morning dew.

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The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

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And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

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The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

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Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

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They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

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In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. ... Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying ... on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.

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Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

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Welcome, all wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span.

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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

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Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?

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Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?

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Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

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I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.

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Leave well - even 'pretty well' - alone that is what I learn as I get old.

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