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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to…
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of…
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify…
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,…
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy…
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Looking, Walking, Being, I look and look. Looking's a way of being: one becomes, sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever…
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They have weaknesses, the same ones which every attack-minded team has. I'm sure that they will concede more than one at El…
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All right," sighed Madrigal. "To the baths, then. To make ourselves shiningly clean." Like vegetable, she thought, before they go in the…
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This gown, is it cut from shadow?" the general asked. "I can barely feel it between my fingers." Not for want of…
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Madrigal sniffed herself. "I'm almost sure I don't smell." "Maybe not, but between shining cleanliness and not smelling, there is a vast…
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That is your legend?" Akiva asked, incredulous. Madrigal had told him the story of the sun and Ellai while they flew. "That…
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