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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

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Land of Heart's Desire, Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

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Swift has sailed into his rest; savage indignation there cannot lacerate his breast. Imitate him if you dare, world-besotted traveller; he served human liberty.

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I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.

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The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

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Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

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And say my glory was I had such friends.

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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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The ghost of Roger Casement is beating on the door.

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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

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Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

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The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

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I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

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