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Like orient pearls at random strung. - translated from the Persian of Hafiz [Words] Mobs are multiplied ignorance. - [Mob] My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed. - in a letter to Lord Althorpe [Power] On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep. - taken from "Enchanted Fruit--Six Hymns to Hindu Deities" [Tears] The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. - [Moon] Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven. - Ode in Imitation of Alcoeus [Time] What constitutes a state? . . . . Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, date maintain. . . . . And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. - Ode in Imitation of Alcoeus [Government]
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