"The mind sees the world as a thing apart, Â Â And the soul makes the world at one with itself. Â Â A mirror scratched reflects no imageâ€” Â Â And this is the silence of wisdom."

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Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.108, Courier Corporation

Edgar Lee Masters

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“We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old roots. The old men have no roots. They don't know it. They just go on talking and flailing away and falling down on the young with their tons of dead weight and their power. For the power is still there, in their life-in-death. But the roots are dead, and the land is poisoned for miles around them.”

Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books
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“Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.”

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