And silence sounds no worse than cheers; After death has stopped the ears.
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I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist) and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
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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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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high The tree of man was never quiet Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.
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From far, from eve and morning
And yon twelve-winded sky,
The stuff of life to knit me
Blew hither: here am I.
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