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I think I could turn and live with animals, They are so placid and self-contained! I stand and look at them long and long, They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth."

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I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. ...

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Let that which stood in front go behind, Let that which was behind advance to the front,...

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When I heard the learn

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Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,...

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Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.

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On a flat road runs the well-trained runner, He is lean and sinewy with muscular legs,...

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At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.

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I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

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Friends are not made, but recognized.

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In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

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Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.

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The sooner we recognize the fact that the mercy of the Almighty extends to every creature endowed with life, the better it will be for us as men and Christians.

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Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest, When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board The old broken links of affection restored, When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?

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Yet here at least an earnest sense Of human right and weal is shown;...

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All else is gone; from those great eyes The soul has fled:...

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'I'm sorry that I spelt the word: I hate to go above you,...

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Of all that Orient lands can vaunt, of marvels with our own competing, the strangest is the Haschish plant, and what will follow on its eating.

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No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.

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These Flemish pictures of old days; Sit with me by the homestead hearth,...

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