SIR, From the present spirit of this nation, it is still further evident to me, what I have always thought, that the people would constantly be in the interests of truth and liberty, were it not for external delusion and external force. Take away terror, and men never would have been slaves: Take away imposture, and men will never be dupes nor…

— John Trenchard
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Un flux infini d'extraits littéraires de l'Antiquité au XXe siècle. 7 sources, 12 langues, open source.

Palimpseste

The sacred books of Parsees, or Zoroastrians, and the main source of our knowledge concerning the religious and spiritual life the ancient Persians. This collection of writings occupies the same place in the literature of Iran (ancient Persia) that the Vedas do in India. The designation Zend-Avesta, which is often employed to denote the sacred…

— Arthur Frank Joseph Remy
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Palimpseste — Dérivez à travers la littérature mondiale

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A spirit passed before me: I beheld
The face of Immortality unveiled--
Deep Sleep came down on every eye save mine--
And there it stood,--all formless--but divine:
Along my bones the creeping flesh did quake;
And as my damp hair stiffened, thus it spake:

— George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Palimpseste — Dérivez à travers la littérature mondiale

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I pant for the music which is divine,
My heart in its thirst is a dying flower;
Pour forth the sound like enchanted wine,
Loosen the notes in a silver shower;
Like a herbless plain, for the gentle rain,
I gasp, I faint, till they wake again.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Believe me, dear patrons, I have wand'red too far,
Without any compass, or planet or star;
My dear native village I scarcely can see
So I'll hie to my hive like the tempest-tost bee.
Hail home! sacred home! to my soul ever dear;
Abroad may be wonders but rapture is here.
My future ambition will never soar higher
Than the clean brushed…

— Major Henry Livingston, Jr.
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If we ourselves are very happy, our lack of
willingness to consider suffering may become greater and
greater as we get happier. Nobody is colder in
shutting out the thought of misery than a joyous
man in a joyous company. “If there be anywhere
any wretched people (which we doubt) let them keep
well away from this place.” That is the voice of
the spirit of…

— Josiah Royce
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Palimpseste — Dérivez à travers la littérature mondiale

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I pant for the music which is divine,
My heart in its thirst is a dying flower;
Pour forth the sound like enchanted wine,
Loosen the notes in a silver shower;
Like a herbless plain, for the gentle rain,
I gasp, I faint, till they wake again.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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G. H. Bondy sucked meditatively at his cigar. "And how did you find it out, old chap?" he asked at last.
"By the effect on myself," said the engineer, resuming his march up and down the room. "As a result of its complete disintegration of matter, my Perfect Karburator manufactures a by-product: pure and unconfined Absolute, God in a chemically pure form. At one end,…

— Karel Čapek
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Such hope, as is the sick despair of good,
Such fear, as is the certainty of ill,
Such doubt, as is pale Expectation's food
Turned while she tastes to poison, when the will
Is powerless, and the spirit...

— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Palimpseste — Dérivez à travers la littérature mondiale

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Palimpseste