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— William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?

Or Love in a golden bowl?

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One who, or that which, accelerates.

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Facts are stubborn things.

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E.E. Cummings·1894–1962·surrealism
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ame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches takewings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.—Horace Greeley. Death rides on every passing breeze,He lurks in every flower.—Bishop Heber. Be to her virtues very kind;Be to her faults x little blind.—Matthew Prior. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;In feelings, not in figures on a dial. —P. J. Bailey.’Tis not the whole of life to live,Nor all of death to die. —Montgomery.Behind a frowning Providence,He hides a smiling face. —Cowper. Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.— Young. A man convinced against his will,Is of the same opinion still. —Butler.
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