I am but a generation removed from poverty and despair. Where would I be today if there had never been an America?… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
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But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
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My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
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May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode! But darkness and the gloomy shade of death… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All… — John Donne Copy Share Image
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
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