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The Animating Principle

by Friedrich von Schiller

Nowhere in the organic or sensitive world ever kindles
Novelty, save in the flower, noblest creation of life.




Quotes of the Day

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once

• E. Joseph Cossman



Poems of the Day
  • Patience Worth
    Faded Leaf Of Spring
    by Patience Worth
    Ah, paled and faded leaf. of spring agone, Whither goest thou? Art speeding to Another land upon the brooklet's breast? Or art thou sailing to the sea, to lodge