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• Love, which proclaims thee human bids thee know a truth more lofty in thy lowliest hour than shallow glory taught to human power, "What's human is immortal!
  -- Bulwe...
• Or if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook, that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book i, Line 10...
• And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
  ..Then he [the Lord!] said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith....
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• To live with them is far less sweet Than to remember thee.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- I saw thy Form...
• Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee
  Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues....
• And what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
• It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
  -- Robert Louis Stevenso...
• Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll!
  Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!...