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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time.…
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Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is…
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A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose should be…
— William Shakespeare
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation…
— Fisher Ames
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Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
— George Meredith
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A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a…
— Thomas Jefferson
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How beautiful she is, Our Lady of compassion! How dear! How utterly unselfish! How filled with joy for Him - and us…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness…
— George Eliot
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Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about…
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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