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““At one blood labors to beget, Spirits as like as it can, Because such figures need to knit, that subtle knot which makes us man.””

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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

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But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

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All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but…

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We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that…

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Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my…

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Various content To your eyes, ears, and tongue, and every part. If then your body go, what need you a heart?

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“Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ; That I may rise,…

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Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

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That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.

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For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull…

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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and…

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All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by…

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