The world's whole sap is sunk: / The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk.
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In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads th...
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Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend, Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behind, With whips and stings
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America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be freedom in a merely political sense th...
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Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
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Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
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The man in ecstasy and the man drowning—both throw up their arms. The first does it to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with th...
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Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there—that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of th...
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Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but th...
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For example, in Year 1 that useless letter 'c' would be dropped to be replased either by 'k' or 's', and likewise 'x' would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which 'c' would be retained would be the 'ch' formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform 'w' spelling, so that 'which' and 'one' would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish 'y' replasing it with 'i' and Iear 4 might fiks the 'g
j' anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez 'c', 'y' and 'x' -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais 'ch', 'sh', and 'th' rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud
hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
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For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g j" anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli. Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
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Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. It is a whisper in the world and a clamor within. More than sex, more th...
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Every artist knows that there is no such thing as 'freedom' in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down th...
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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into th...
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No, sir, th dimmycratic party aint on speakin terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a sthreet car an set in opposite corners while wan mutthers Thraiter an th other hisses Miscreent ye can bet theyre two dimmycratic leaders thryin to reunite th gran ol party.
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In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on th...
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A priest is sent to Alaska. A bishop goes up to visit one year later. The bishop asks, 'How do you like it up here?' The priest says, 'If it wasn't for my Rosary, and 2 martinis a day, I'd be lost. Bishop, would you like a martini?' 'Yes.' 'Rosary, get th
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Thus roving on In confus'd march forlorn, th' adventrous Bands,...
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... the precipitate of sorrow is happiness, the precipitate of struggle is success. Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is th...
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A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th thruth iv th matther is he was ilicted because no wan knew him.
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Play the glass,Perform the glassWith a motion of the glass,with one breath,a multitude of tones are played on the glassThe glass like a living bodygrows and changes its formAll th shapes played by the glass resound with beautyWhen blowing the glass I feel like a maestroThen suddenly come to myselfand I am just a child playing with soap bubbles
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In this lucid and flexible pattern only one thing remained always stationary, but this fallacy went unnoticed by Martha. The blind spot was th...
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Hath homely age th' alluring beauty took From my poor cheek? Then he hath wasted it....
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Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.
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Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at th...
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A good performance, like a human life, is a temporal affair—a process in time. It is good as a whole through being good in its parts, and th...
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The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in th...
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We will sing of great crowds excited by work, by pleasure, and by riot; we will sing of the multicolored, polyphonic tides of revolution in th...
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Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears.
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Despite compelling evidence that she will be working at 35, by choice or necessity, today's 21-year-old woman has difficulty looking beyond th...
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