Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.


Robert E. Lee

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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
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Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
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To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
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Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
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who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
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for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
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I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
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Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
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"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
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The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
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and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
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