We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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