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"Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded."
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"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."
"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
"Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet."
"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."
"Will the veiled sister pray for Those who walk in darkness, who chose thee and oppose thee, Those who are torn on the horn between season and season, time and time, between Hour and hour, word and word, power and power, those who wait In darkness? Will the veiled sister pray For children at the gate Who will not go away and cannot pray: Pray for those who chose and oppose."
"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."
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"The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality."
"An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature."
"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit."
"The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship."
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