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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.

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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay

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