But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

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The best prophet of the future is the past.

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Men freely believe that which they wish to be the truth.

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When we think we lead we are most led.

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This is the patent age of new inventions/ For killing bodies, and saving souls,/ All propagated with the best of intentions.

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Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.

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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.

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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

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She walks in beauty like the night.

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