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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. – John Ruskin

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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil. – John Ruskin

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Peace
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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. – John Ruskin

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work
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Poetry
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I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. – Peter Davison

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Poetry

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. – Gertrude Stein

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Poetry

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. – Wilfred Owen

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Poetry

I think thats what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior. – Diane Wakoski

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Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. – George Eliot

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I have always supported measures and principles and not men. – Davy Crockett

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We face the question whether a still higher “standard of living” is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. – Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949

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Dont be afraid of your dreams. – Jacques Parizeau

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