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You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; Tomorrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad New-year; Of all the glad New-year, mother, the maddest merriest day, For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen …

He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

In contradictions to bourgeois customs, to the profit-making, commercialised bourgeois press, to bourgeois literary careerism and individualism, "aristocratic anarchism" and drive for profit, the socialist proletariat must put forward the …

Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!

Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?

And these questions are constantly resolved, without any consideration of the merits of the cause, merely as the parties who uphold these jarring interests may chance to prevail; and as they prevail, the balance is overset, now upon one …

These two desires of the Passion and the sickness I desired with a condition, saying thus: Lord, Thou knowest what I would, — if it be Thy will that I have it — and if it be not Thy will, good Lord, be not displeased: for I will nought but …

So here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away.

All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.

To neglect at any time preparation for death, is to sleep on our post at a siege, but to omit it in old age, is to sleep at an attack.

Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is …

The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.

2001. Find out thy own Mistakes, and Failings, in order to amend them. A Disease known is half cured.

How innocent, how beautiful thy sleep ! Sweet one, 'tis peace and joy to gaze on thee!

The capacity of indignation makes an essential part of the outfit of every honest man.

Som thingis that prouoke young men to wed in haste, Show after weddyng, that hast maketh waste.

A dynamic force is a very terrible thing; it may crush you, but it is not necessarily right.

Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. ... What a Eutopia — What a Paradise would this region be!

Blest hour! it was a luxury — to be!

Damned below Judas; more abhorred than he was.