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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago.
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What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?
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No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!
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And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.
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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.
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The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.
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The beasts are very wise, Their mouths are clean of lies, They talk one to the other, Bullock to bullock brothers Resting after their labors, Each in stall with his neighbors, But man with goad and whip, Breaks up their fellowship, Shouts in their silky ears Filling their soul with fears. When he has plowed the land, He says: "they understand." But the beasts in stall together, Freed from the yoke and tether, Say as the torn flank smoke: "Nay, 'twas the whip that spoke."
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They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods.
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Every woman knows all about everything.
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O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.
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Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
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I keep six honest serving men.
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Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
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Delight in the little things.
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We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!
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Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.
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At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.
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I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
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The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
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The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers.
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Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.
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