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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
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- Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
- 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.
- 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's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
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- For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
- Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
- Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
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