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But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er be given to man.

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The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.

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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

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Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

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It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

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I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself. The objective of avoiding total destruction must have priority over any other objective.

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In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

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When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.

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The man who has God for his treasure has all things in one.

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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

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A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.

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In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.

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The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.

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A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

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A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

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