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From fear in every guise,
From sloth, from love of pelf,
By war's great sacrifice
The world redeems itself.

— John Davidson War Song. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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One must become
Fanatic – be a wedge – a thunder-bolt
To smite a passage through the close-grained world.

Mere by-blows are the world and we,
And time within eternity
A sheer anachronism.

Unwilling friend, let not your spite abate;
Help me with scorn, and strengthen me with hate.

Ballads and Songs (1894)

Business – the world's work – is the sale of lies:
Not goods, but trade-marks; and still more and more
In every branch becomes the sale of money.

Jewellery?—Baubles; bad for the soul;
Desire of the heart and lust of the eye!

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