To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.
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On flowers, before, and mist, and love they ran
With Persian Saadi in his Gulistan:
But O that light!
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True daughter of Old Time thou art!
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Be that word our sign in parting, bird or fiend," I shrieked, upstarting -
"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
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