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Amy Lowell

"Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give."

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"Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give."

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Amber Hurdle

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."

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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

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"The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth."

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"Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it."

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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

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"Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice."

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"Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth."

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"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."

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"All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words."
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"You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow."
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"Youth condemns; maturity condones."
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"A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men."
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"In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern."
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"Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness."
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"Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation."
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"I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon."
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"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."
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"Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils."
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