“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.”
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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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