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Death of the self in a long, tearless night, All natural shapes blazing unnatural light.

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If only I could nudge you from this sleep, My maimed darling, my skittery pigeon....

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A mind too active is no mind at all.

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I am renewed by death, thought of my death, The dry scent of a dying garden in September,...

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Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

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Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

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So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.

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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

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They also serve who only stand and wait.

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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

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Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

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Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

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Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

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The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

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The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.

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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

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