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/ page 505 of 1205 /It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them....
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The whispering waves were half asleep, The clouds were gone to play, And on the bosom of the deep The smile of Heaven lay;
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and so this tree— Oh, that such our death may be!—...
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Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes what'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanized automaton.
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He lives, he wakes,—'tis Death is dead, not he;
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
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Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
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Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
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Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep,—that death is slumber,...
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindoo, His best friends hear no more of him.
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To that high Capital, where kingly Death Keeps his pale court in beauty and decay, He came.
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But pale despair and cold tranquillity, Nature's vast frame, the web of human things,...
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Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the revolving year.
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Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.
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Death is the veil which those who live call life: They sleep—and it is lifted
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It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower -- and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.
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Two bloodless wolves whose dry throats rattle, Two crows perched on the murrained cattle, Two vipers tangled into one.
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The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
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Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches.
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