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What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.


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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.



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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!



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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.



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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.



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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.



What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.



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