Death is the mother of beauty, mystical, Within whose burning bosom we devise Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly.
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A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
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The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree.
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And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.
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Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
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And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.
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Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
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Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
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