“Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.”
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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
