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Of such as he was, there be few on earth;
Of such as he is, there are few in Heaven:
And life is all the sweeter that he lived,
And all he loved more sacred for his sake:
And Death is all the brighter that he died,
And Heaven is all the happier that he's there.

— Gerald Massey

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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.

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

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

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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