“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”
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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
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I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
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I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
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