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You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland'...more

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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.

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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

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

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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lanter...more

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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

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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.