The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
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Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.
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The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.
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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
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The softest things in the world to overcome the hardest things in the world.
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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
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