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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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Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
— Edmund Burke
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In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the…
— Walt Whitman
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The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
— William Godwin
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This grossness, physical love, which is actually the biological cooling system, is very essential. The prana feeds the tattvas and the tattvas…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness - becomes more sensitive…
— Rajneesh
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The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.
— William Hazlitt
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Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now, to quote myself…
— Tom Lehrer
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As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and…
— William Shakespeare
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