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"Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing."
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"When turkeys mate they think of swans."
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"Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing."
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"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."
Soul
"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."
Future
"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."
Architecture
"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."
Imagination
"A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind."
Death
"Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process."
Life
"People of humor are always in some degree people of genius."
Humor
"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."
Animals
"The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all."
Government
"A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory."
Trust
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