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“Untwisting all the chains that tie the hidden soul of harmony.”
“Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, and Laughter, holding both his sides.”
“Hence vain deluding Joys, the brood of Folly without father bred!”
“A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.”
“Methought I saw my late espousèd saint brought to me like Alcestis from the grave.”
“Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!”
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”
“We cannot solve this problem through retaliatory violence.”
“Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.”
“The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest.”
“Privileged classes never give up their privileges without strong resistance.”
“There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.”
“Sometimes, you know, it's necessary to go backward in order to go forward.”