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While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin,...

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No longer now/ He slays the lamb that looks him in the face,/ And horribly devours his mangled flesh;/ Which, still avenging nature's broken law,/ Kindled all putrid humours in his frame,/ All evil passions, and all vain belief,/ Hatred, despair, and loathing in his mind,/ The germs of misery, death, disease, and crime.”

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We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

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There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

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With plough and spade, and hoe and loom, Trace your grave, and build your tomb,...

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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

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In honored poverty thy voice did weave Songs consecrate to truth and liberty;—...

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...What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must be supreme, establishing his throne On vanquished will, quelling the anarchy Of hopes and fears, being himself alone.

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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won

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Why didst thou leave the trodden paths of men Too soon, and with weak hands though mighty heart...

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Never again may blood of bird or beast/ Stain with its venomous stream a human feast,/ To the pure skies in accusation steaming. “I wish no living thing to suffer pain."

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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

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We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

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Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.

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Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

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O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb,

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Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, -- a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field...

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When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

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Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

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