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They think how one life hums, revolves and toils, One cog in a golden singing hive:

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After the first powerful plain manifesto The black statement of pistons, without more fuss...

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She passes the houses which humbly crowd outside, The gasworks and at last the heavy page...

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Unless, governor, teacher inspector, visitor, This map becomes their window and these windows...

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Critics of visual arts and of music describe in words—that is to say, a system of signs other than those made by brushes on canvas or chisel...

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Death is another milestone on their way. With laughter on their lips and with winds blowing round them...

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Ye tradeful Merchants, that, with weary toil, Do seek most precious things to make your gain,...

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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

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That through thy prowess and victorious arms, Thy country may be freed from foreign harms;...

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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

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A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

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Walked forth to ease my pain Along the shore of silver streaming Thames,...

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What more felicity can fall to creature, Than to enjoy delight with liberty.

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Shepheards delights he dooth them all forsweare, Hys pleasaunt pipe, whych made us meriment,...

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An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

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They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

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