All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
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I love thy music, mellow bell,I love thine iron chime,
To life or death, to heaven or hell,
Which calls the sons of Time.
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As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.
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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.
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The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
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The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days more of them, than any other country.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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