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“Mere dreams, mere dreams! Yet Homer had not sung
Had he not found it certain beyond dreams
That out of lifes own self-delight had sprung
The abounding glittering jet....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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