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Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

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To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

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I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

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To make an end is to make a beginning.

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Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

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When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

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The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

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What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

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In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

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War among men defiles this world.

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No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

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Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.

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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool.

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Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

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