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This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above,
And if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.

— Gerald Massey This World; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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The time shall come
When man to man shall be a friend and brother.

One sharp stern struggle and the slaves of centuries are free.

The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn.

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

There's no dearth of kindness
In this world of ours;
Only in our blindness
We gather thorns for flowers.

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