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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536798" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Proverbs</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">One continent, one creed, one skin -<br>Our health and savour lie therein.<br>From wars and heavy things this grace is won -<br>They urge our pulse to unison.<br>Shall this remoteness hinder thee?<br>Pluck thence a call to sovereignty -<br>Thou centre of the world to be!<br>The servile State is what? a prison - one<br>For superseded life or, strictly, none.<br>Where the ignoble State is sanctified<br>See universal suicide.<br>Not numbers shall the State exalt<br>If civic virtue be at fault.<br>If virtue grounds but on negation,<br>Seek other ground on which to build a nation.<br>The larger good, supplanting this, is gall -<br>How else? - to the overreaching of the small.<br>A &quot;fortune&quot; won: a speciousness the State<br>Will blot as illegitimate.<br>National growth how presses! Shall it be<br>For creed or caste put off whose prophets see<br>No virtue in the essential unity?<br>That knife for thee - thou help'st them sharpen it.<br>Where is thy spirit? where thy wit?<br>'Tis better, much! But who has felt and proved,<br>Till hate the foe hath grappled, how he loved?<br>What takes its stature, whole, erect,<br>Till measured in the opposed effect?<br>Too much we can respect the fence<br>Of aptness and expedience.<br>Why, pledged there, of the sepulchre complain?<br>Earth shall fling out its flower again.<br>Creation, life's one satisfaction,<br>Stumbles first in the abstraction.<br>Who move not to a goal defined<br>Will speed as do their next of kin, the blind.<br>What makes the compromising bosom sure<br>Hath the ordained investiture.<br>What here is visioned, fact will prove -<br>As we put on the means, and move.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Baylebridge">William Baylebridge</a><div class=q>
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Our health and savour lie therein.
From wars and heavy things this grace is won -
They urge our pulse to unison.
Shall this remoteness hinder thee?
Pluck thence a call to sovereignty -
Thou centre of the world ..."></div>
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