“Even the masks of life are masks of deeper mystery.”
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“Said a skunk to a tube-rose, ‘See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep.’
Said the tube-rose to the skunk, ‘Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!’”
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“Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.”
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“Your saying to me, ‘I do not understand you,’ is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.”
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“It is wiser for the lame not to break his crutches upon the head of his enemy.”
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“The tribune of humanity is in its silent heart, never its talkative mind.”
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“They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold;
And I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.”
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“The truly free man is he who bears the load of the bond slave patiently.”
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“We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
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“What if trouble should be a new window in the Eastern wall of your house?”
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“When you sing, the hungry hears you with his stomach.”