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Fold him in his country's stars.
Roll the drum and fire the volley!
What to him are all our wars,
What but death bemocking folly?


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Love is that orbit of the restless soul
Whose circle grazes the confines of space,
Bounding within the limits of its race
Utmost extremes.


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"Freedom!" their battle-cry,—
"Freedom! or leave to die!"


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Lovers are Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot Of their misdeeds.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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George Henry Boker

George Henry Boker
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Born: October 6, 1823
Died: January 2, 1890 (aged 66)
Bio: George Henry Boker was an American poet, playwright, and diplomat.
Known for:
  1. Anne Boleyn: A Tragedy (1850)
  2. The Bee-Keeper's Manual
  3. Sonnets: A Sequence on Profane Love

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