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The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

~Richard Le Gallienne

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All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

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All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

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There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

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Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.

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On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

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We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.

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Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

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A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

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All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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