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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

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A louse in the locks of literature.

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We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

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How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

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Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits.

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Authority forgets a dying king.

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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

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If thou shouldst never see my face again, pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

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After it, follow it, Follow The Gleam.

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A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

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Believe me, than in half the creeds.

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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

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Ring out the false, ring in the true.

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All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

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Love is the only gold.

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The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

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Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

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