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Monologues and lyrics

This book compiles monologues and song lyrics, offering a diverse array of expressions and narratives through spoken word and musical compositions. more

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William Wetmore Story
William Wetmore Story

William Wetmore Story was an American poet, born on February 12, 1819, and died on October 7, 1895. His poetry is known for its deep emotion and admiration for nature. more

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“To free a man from suffering, he must be set right, put in health; and the health at the root of man's being, his rightness, is to be free from wrongness, that is, from sin. A man is right when there is no wrong in him. I do not mean set free from the sins he has done: that will follow; I mean the sins he is doing, or is capable of doing; the sins in his being which spoil his nature — the wrongness in him — the evil he consents to; the sin he is, which makes him do the sin he does.”