If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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Who made the world I cannot tell 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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