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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

Think as a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

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Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.

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I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.

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My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd. "This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out, "Of plaster Saints;" his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.

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I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.

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Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose.

I--love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb-- Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb.

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O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.

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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

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I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow; And then I must scrub and bake and sweep Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep; And the young lie long and dream in their bed.

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