I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

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To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

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No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

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Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

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You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.

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Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

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The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

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