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This compilation includes a diverse range of poems, showcasing the author's poetic style and thematic concerns across various genres and historical periods.
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“Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.”
“Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.”
“Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.”
“Books are men of higher stature.”
“Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.”
“All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes.”
“A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.”
“A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.”
“Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.”
“Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.”
“For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.”
“A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.”
“But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware.”
“Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.”
“What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.”