George Henry Boker quotes
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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?”
-- George Henry BokerSource : George Henry Boker (1864). “Poems of the War”, p.169
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“...Lovers are Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot Of their misdeeds.”
-- George Henry BokerSource : George Henry Boker (1857). “Plays and poems”, p.462
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“Love is that orbit of the restless soulWhose circle grazes the confines of space,Bounding within the limits of its raceUtmost extremes.”
-- George Henry BokerSource : George Henry Boker (1857). “Plays and Poems”, p.400
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“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”
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“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.”
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“We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.”
Source : A. S. King (2014). “Glory O'Brien's History of the Future”, p.80, Hachette UK
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