Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak. ...... They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
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It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.
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Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story.
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