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They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea;
He wields a mighty scepter
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William Ross Wallace

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He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.
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He said he owned the sea,
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Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions.
W...
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Creation's mighty seed -
For Man has broke the Fell...
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One is strong, a child now grown
The other weak, a parent aged
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T...
MUSE Sentinels of trees
breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh
As their mighty arms reach to...
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Rebuilder of great home.
Restorer of mighty nation.
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How can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman ...
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The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the fro...
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I cannot say, and I will not say
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I am shown a regal residence;
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A voice that cries against a mighty wrong;
And full of d...
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Now, who would live his life ...
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Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus --
burst into life, burst
into being, be a ...
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My father knows the proper way
The nation should be run;
He tells us childr...
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Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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When with both eyes a shark can blink
Is he a brave fish ...
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With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
...
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In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their...
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Of mastodons, are billiard balls.

The sword of ...
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'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look ...
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cautious because I've been naive,
strong because I'v...
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what solemnity and beauty,
is each new day born;
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O beautiful
was the werewolf
in his evil forest.
We took him
t...
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Who never laughed or played
He never risked, he never tried,...
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Were to burst at once into the sky
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Were to burst at once into the sky
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Fear not the things thou suffer must;
For, whom ...
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"Look! The beauty--but that is nothing--look at th...
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Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of d...
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...
Nobody moved, or said a...
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Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women ...
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What mighty contests rise from trivial things,.....
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that changes
right away.
it's something
inside. he says
h...
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�...
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And wonderfully clever pig.
To everybody it was plain
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when God created dogs He didn't h...
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Having realiz...
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Percy wakes me and I am not ready.
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His cheek is red and dark as wine;
The fires as of ...
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(O tribulation of the wind that rolls!)
Black ...
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He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, c...
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Far, far ahead is all, her seamen know.
And...
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Home is the sailor, home from sea,
and the hunter home fro...
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GORDON B. HINCKLEY He is deaf, and keen to accept,
any economical operation,
that will correct his situation....
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And he, of his high comrade Sorrow dreaming,
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Were to burst at once into the sky
That would be like t...
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he is very careful about how much ...
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A man wants to be free
flying in the emptiness of the universe
He thi...
ASPER BLURRY You wanted to live," he says.

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And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."
But on the ...
WOODY GUTHRIE The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.
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Behind the gates of Hercules;
Before him not the ghost of sho...
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ILONA ANDREWS HERMIA
God speed fair Helena! whither away?

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Call you me fair? that fair ...
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"No," the girl insisted,
"it's HER-O.
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That is what they say.
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"We can't, we're afraid!" they responded.
"Come to the edge," ...
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But he with a chuckle replied
That maybe it couldn't,...
EDGAR A. GUEST I didn't know who to
believe
but
one thing I do
know: when a man is
living<...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI When Hitler marched
across the Rhine
To take the land of France,
La dame de fer deci...
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I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
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A man may do both,' said Ar...
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“Is it true you almost drowned Roamer...
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He sits down, tired,
and says to mom,
"I'm sorry you had to see t...
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"The devil,...
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My neighbor's gold I never stole;
I never spoiled his ho...
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Y...
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The man in the corner
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He's crying...
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And all the boards did shrink.
Water, water everywhere,
Nor any d...
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LEW WALLACE Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system ...
STEVE WALLACE Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which...
WALLACE STEVENS [I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
WALLACE STEGNER The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
WALLACE STEVENS Everybody wants to do 'The View.' It's this iconic show. When I worked at the White Hous...
NICOLLE WALLACE When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.
MIKE WALLACE It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of menta...
NICOLLE WALLACE To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice...
IRVING WALLACE I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you ...
MIKE WALLACE Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalt...
NICOLLE WALLACE I didn't have a special secret about Sarah Palin. I just had a feeling and some concerns. Her bl...
NICOLLE WALLACE We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fan...
GEORGE WALLACE There are few things that weigh on a person’s ability to grow and thrive more than insecurity. One...
CARLOS WALLACE People spend money they don’t have on clothes and accessories they don’t need to fill a void. No...
CARLOS WALLACE Insecurity is a powerful enemy. It forces people to use make-up, plastic surgery, collagen injection...
CARLOS WALLACE Happiness will never flourish in a life bereft of optimism.
CARLOS WALLACE I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of art...
WALLACE SHAWN Um, Larry likes to coach.
BEN WALLACE What we focus on every night is going out there and making this thing work and finding ways to win g...
BEN WALLACE Whoever wins this is the world real basketball champion.
BEN WALLACE Right now, I'm not really thinking about any of that. I'm just out here trying to have fun, play bas...
BEN WALLACE It definitely helped our team. I think it helped everybody on our team get better. He played a major...
BEN WALLACE He didn't cut it, did he? Good. I like that hair. I'm rolling with him.
BEN WALLACE I think our whole team has picked it up. We're getting the ball moved from side to side, forcing tea...
BEN WALLACE All that hard work is nothing if we don't continue to play the way we've played. Everybody's focus h...
BEN WALLACE They're a struggling team right now, trying to find their identity. I thought last year they had all...
BEN WALLACE That's how we've been playing all year. We're not going to panic regardless of what the situation is...
BEN WALLACE Employment is improving, or at least stabilizing.
ANDREW WALLACE We saw an additional fall this morning after yesterday's dramatic fall, and bond futures touched a n...
ANDREW WALLACE We are going to see some recovery in the economy, but maybe not as much as some people expected.
ANDREW WALLACE We're taking our cues from the stock market. Bonds are at a three-month high today [Wednesday].
ANDREW WALLACE The team gave us a really good car despite the little practice time we had but we still don't have t...
ANDY WALLACE I've been coming here since the '50s.
ANDY WALLACE You need very good reliability and a car that has strength. Many of us are in the same boat this yea...
ANDY WALLACE Last year I thought the field was as strong as it's ever been, and it's better this year. Unless you...
ANDY WALLACE What we are doing is just a sport and the situation with MDA puts things in perspective. No matter w...
ANDY WALLACE My sense is that this bounce in bond prices and drop in yield is probably short-term.
ANDY WALLACE Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
WALLACE STEGNER What ever happened to the passion we all had to improve ourselves, live up to our potential, leave a...
WALLACE STEGNER I want the best apparel, I want the best field playing surface, I want the best coaches. I just want...
AUDREY WALLACE We're looking to raise money through them to get us two new synthetic turf playing surfaces. So when...
AUDREY WALLACE A lot of the girls don't really want to talk about it ... but the shooting was kind of the impetus b...
AUDREY WALLACE