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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward read more
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labours of peace.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now ask, Peace be
with thee.
For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now ask, Peace be
with thee.
I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round read more
I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round as the moon, to stare up.
I want to be looking at them when they come
Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots.
I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.
Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.
I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.
They will wonder if I was important.
The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall
lie down with the kid; and the read more
The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall
lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the
fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
