“When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.”
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“When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.”
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“Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause...”
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“The eye altering, alters all.”
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“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.”
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“The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.”
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“That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.”
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“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”
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“To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.”
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“Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.”
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“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
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“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
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“I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!”
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“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.”
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“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”
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“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
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“What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.”
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“Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.”
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“The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
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“Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.”
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“What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is r...”
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