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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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It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a…
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All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of…
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Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.
— Lord Byron
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I bear my testimony that there is no joy to be found in all this world like that of sweet communion with…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Out where the stones stand up like thrones beside the ocean Out where the waves make a grave of the sea The…
— Lynn
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