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- She is not fair to outward view
  As many maidens be;  Her loveliness I never knew  Until she smiled on me;  Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,  A well of love, a spring of light.   - Hartley Coleridge
 
- Cowards are cruel, but the brave
  Love mercy, and delight to save.  - John Gay (1685 - 1732)
 
- The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself. 
 - Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
 
- The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death. 
 - Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
 
- Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute. 
 - Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
 
- The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war. 
 - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
 
- Beware the fury of a patient man. 
 - John Dryden (1631 - 1700), Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
 
- I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. 
 - Al Capone (1899 - 1947), In Allsop, The Bootleggers (1961)
 
- He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool. 
 - Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), The Rebel (1951)
 
- Life's a voyage that's homeward bound. 
 - Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
 
 
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