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From the blood of Medusa
Pegasus sprang.
His hoof of heaven
Like melody rang.

— Eleanor Farjeon The New Book of Days (1961)

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More quotes by Eleanor Farjeon

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

Gypsy and Ginger (1920)

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

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1922)

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)

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John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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