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• Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
• Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet…
• All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
• And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
• And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
• Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never…
• If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
• It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the…
• Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is…
• The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody…
• Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams
• No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

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