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And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will…
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O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
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Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.
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This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.
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To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
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The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband…
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts,…
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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…
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Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.
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To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves -…
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All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.
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What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.
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The beggarly last doit.
— William Cowper
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How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
— Walt Whitman
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I…
— James Russell Lowell
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Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because…
— Samuel Johnson
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A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life,…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a…
— Thomas Hardy
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Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
— Arthur Murphy
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No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he…
— Jeremy Taylor
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In my experience, only third-rate intelligence is sent to Legislatures to make laws, because the first-rate article will not leave important private…
— Mark Twain
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He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams…
— James Allen
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Today festival is a big burden for beggarly humans.Mak_786
— Mak_786
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