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This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

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Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.

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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

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The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

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There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now; And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.

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Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the anatomist, chemist, astronomer, geologist, phrenologist, spiritualist, mathematician, historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem.

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From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master.

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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

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A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots.

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It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

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We consider bibles and religions divine I do not say they are not divine. I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still. It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life.

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Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.

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I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul.

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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

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There is no God any more divine than Yourself.

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The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

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And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned to beautiful results.

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A man can be a hero in any profession

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The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.

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