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Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.

— Eleanor Farjeon Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)

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It’s no use crying over spilt evils. It’s better to mop them up laughing.

Gypsy and Ginger (1920)

Thou God of stone, I have a craving in me
For knowledge of thee as thou wert in old
Enchanted twilights in Arcadia.

Pan-Worship and Other Poems (1908)

Of troubles know I none,
Of pleasures know I many —
I rove beneath the sun
Without a single penny.

Pan-Worship and Other Poems (1908)

O evanescent temples built of man
To deities he honoured and dethroned!
Earth shoots a trail of her eternal vine
To crown the head that men have ceased to honour.

Pan-Worship and Other Poems (1908)

Upon your shattered ruins where
This vine will flourish still, as rare,
As fresh, as fragrant as of old.
Love will not crumble.

Pan-Worship and Other Poems (1908)

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Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854)

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