People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way.
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They love to dally with the wire
As Isaac played with Esan's hair.
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The flowering moments of the mind Drop half their petals in our speech.
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I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be ... may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand. And so beyond the vision of battling races and an impoverished earth, I catch a dreaming glimpse of peace.
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