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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
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To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath…
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.
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See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too,…
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so…
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He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be…
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Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
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Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at…
— Charlotte Bronte
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There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
— Herman Melville
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There is an infinity of landscape here, caused by the purity of the atmosphere. It has been said that there is a…
— Hans Heysen
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Could have recovered greenness?
— George Herbert
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I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small…
— E. Nesbit
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Of two men looking at a green field, one estimates its yield in bushels and calculates the price of the bushels in…
— Mikhail Naimy
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The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind…
— Philip Larkin
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The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in…
— Dan Simmons
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For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: (For we are but…
— Bible
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