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• He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The…
• I am a part of all whom I have met.
• For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In…
• The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.
• He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who…
• The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.
• Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right,…
• Hemorrhoids can bleed, typically after a bowel movement, producing blood-streaked stool or toilet paper, .. The blood may turn water in the…
• It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.
• I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
• When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars.
• All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.

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