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You think of a remote man merely as a man; that is, you think of him in the right way.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Beowulf
by Richard Wilbur
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The land was overmuch like scenery,
The flowers attentive, the grass too garrulous green;
In the lake like a dropped kerchief could be seen
The lark's reflection after the lark was gone;
The Roman road lay paved too shiningly
For a road so many men had traveled on.
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Also the people were strange, were strangely warm.
The king
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English Literature
Those in pain have no time for the pain they cause.
Margaret Atwood • The Robber Bride
very little achievement is required in order to pity another man’s shortcomings.
George Eliot • Middlemarch (AmazonClassics Edition)
I sit, with all my theories, metaphors, and equations, Shakespeare and Milton, Barthes, Du Fu, and Homer, masters of death who can’t, at last, teach me how to touch my dead.