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We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.

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Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

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Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

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To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

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O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,
To come to me: of cureless ills thou art
The one physician. Pain lays not its touch
Upon a corpse.

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Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:
Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured
Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed
By hymns of praise. From him alone of all
The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

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I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

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If eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

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Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh what were man?

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