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For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!

John Galsworthy

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And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
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And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute’s profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.
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First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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Beginnings are always messy.
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A snowy, moonlit peak, with its single star, soaring up to the passionate blue; or against the flames of sunset, an old yew-tree standing dark guardian of some fiery secret.
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