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Reform is born of need not pity.


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The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.



Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.



War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.



You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.



... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.

... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.



These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.



America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.



Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.

Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.



We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.



Reform is born of need, not pity.

Reform is born of need, not pity.





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Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds.



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Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.

Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.



I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.

I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.



however, i can read hers- she'll be waiting to ambush you in class.

however, i can read hers- she'll be waiting to ambush you in class.




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