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“The eyes of the children are magicked by the toys that fall out of the wondrous garden of innocence.”
― The Dirty Dust: Cré na Cille
― The Dirty Dust: Cré na Cille
“Sometimes at pagan shrines they vowed
offerings to idols, swore oaths that the killer of souls might come to their aid and save the people. That was their way, their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts they remembered hell.”
― Beowulf
offerings to idols, swore oaths that the killer of souls might come to their aid and save the people. That was their way, their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts they remembered hell.”
― Beowulf
“I winked at my own littleness, as people do at their own faults.”
― Gulliver’s Travels
― Gulliver’s Travels
“Fort of the Dane,
Garrison of the Saxon,
Augustan capital
Of a Gaelic nation,
Appropriating all
The alien brought,
You give me time for thought.”
― Collected Poems
Garrison of the Saxon,
Augustan capital
Of a Gaelic nation,
Appropriating all
The alien brought,
You give me time for thought.”
― Collected Poems
“Thou wouldst be loved?—then let thy heart From its present pathway part not; Being everything which now thou art, Be nothing which thou art not. So with the world thy gentle ways, Thy grace, thy more than beauty, Shall be an endless theme of praise. And love a simple duty.”
― Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works
― Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works
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