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Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate'er it touches.
----Percy Bysshe Shelley: Queen Mab
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
---Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
---William Wordsworth
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Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all.
---Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
----John Milton, Paradise Lost