FastSaying
What is the voice of strange command Calling you still, as friend calls friend, With love that cannot brook delay, To rise and follow the ways that wend Over the hills and far away.
William Ernest Henley
Mountains
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Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.
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To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, revere the established order, and wear his heart in his breeches pocket or anywhere but on his sleeve.
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Under the bludgeonings of chance / My head is bloody, but unbowed.
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I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
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Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.
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