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I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of t ...

William Burroughs

Nixon, Richard Milhous

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All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven
'Tis gone.
Arise, black vengeance, from the hollow hell!

Shakespeare

revenge

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Hereabouts our Indian told us at length the story of their contention with the priest respecting schools. He thought a great deal ... of education and had recommended it to his tribe. His argument in its favor was, that if you had been to college and learnt to calculate, you could "keep 'um property,--no other way." He said that his boy was the best scholar in the school at Oldtown, to which he went with whites. He himself is a Protestant, and goes to church regularly at Oldtown. According to his account, a good many of his tribe are Protestants, and many of the Catholics also are in favor of schools. Some years ago they had a schoolmaster, a Protestant, whom they liked very well. The priest came and said that they must send him away, and finally he had such influence, telling them that they would go to the bad place at last if they retained him, that they sent him away. The school party, though numerous, were about giving up. Bishop Fenwick came from Boston and used his influence against them. But our Indian told his side that they must not give up, must hold on, they were the strongest. If they gave up, then they would have no party. But they answered that it was "no use, priest too strong, we'd better give up." At length he persuaded them to make a stand.
The priest was going for a sign to cut down the liberty-pole. So Polis and his party had a secret meeting about it; he got ready fifteen or twenty stout young men, "stript 'um naked, and painted 'um like old times," and told them that when the priest and his party went to cut down the liberty-pole, they were to rush up, take hold of it, and prevent them, and he assured them that there would be no war, only noise,--"no war where priest is." He kept his men concealed in a house near by, and when the priest's party were about to cut down the liberty-pole, the fall of which would have been a death-blow to the school party, he gave a signal, and his young men rushed out and seized the pole. There was a great uproar, and they were about coming to blows, but the priest interfered, saying, "No war, no war," and so the pole stands, and the school goes on still.
We thought that it showed a good deal of tact in him, to seize the occasion and take his stand on it; proving how well he understood those with whom he had to deal.

Henry David Thoreau

education | clergy | intolerance, religious

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Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almost ...

D.H. Lawrence

Protestantism | marriage | rhythm

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In almost all climes the tortoise and the frog are among the precursors and heralds of this season, and birds fly with song and gl ...

Henry David Thoreau

spring | frogs | tortoises

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I hope you ain't going to blow up my boat, Mr. Johnson. Like my wife, she's not much, but she's all I have.

Martin Berkeley

boats | wives

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Lost at night in an immense forest, I only have a small light to guide me. A man appears who tells me: "My friend, blow out your c ...

Alfred Döblin

sea | nature | mistics and mysticism

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A man with your experience in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of opposition to the moral sentiment. Howeve ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

oppression

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I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I've kinda lo ...

Harry Fink

luck

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Live, you son of a bitch. You're gonna live if I have to blow your brains out.

Samuel Fuller

life | aphorisms

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