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• The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Sleep, Heart

  "TheWorld Is Too Much with Us" l. 1 (1807)

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• Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Sweet, Eye, Sleep

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• The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

  Maya Angelou

  Gratitude, Children, Simple

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.10, Bantam

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• What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?

  H. L. Mencken

  Voting, Democracy, Doctrine

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• When Obama boasts that it will be a huge boon to the economy to give amnesty to millions of low-wage workers, who won't pay income taxes but will need a lot of government services, remember: Obamacare was supposed to save money, too.

  Ann Coulter

  Government, Obamacare, Giving

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• They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they got their tyrants, for either servitude or freedom, when it goes to extremes, is an utter bane, while either in due measure is altogether a boon.

  Plato

  Law, Tyrants, Way

  Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

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• Social media is the greatest boon to journalism since the printing press.

  Vivian Schiller

  Media, Journalism, Printing

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• The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.

  Bhagat Singh

  Religious, Dirty, Alliances

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.

  Felix Adler

  Struggle, School, Diversity

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• How can Life grant us boon of living, compensateFor dull grey ugliness and pregnant hateUnless we dareThe soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we payWith courage to behold the resistless day,And count it fair.

  Amelia Earhart

  Choices, Soul, Dull

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• Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.

  William Ellery Channing

  Freedom, Names, People

  William Ellery CHANNING (1830). “The Importance and Means of a National Literature”, p.7

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• I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I have had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless this beneficient institution. In all my experiences of life, I have seen nothing so seraphic as the look that comes into a freshly mutilated man's face when he feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand and finds his accident ticket all right.

  Mark Twain

  Eye, Simple, Men

  Mark Twain (2006). “Mark Twain Speaking”, p.90, University of Iowa Press

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• Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, India, Denial

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• Whate'er my doom;
  It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me
  The boon of resignation.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Unhappy, Given, Doom

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• I too mean to be out of politics. The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment gives me the boon of equality before the law, terminates my enlistment, and discharges me cured.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Mean, Law, Giving

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• It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Kind, Stage, Various

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• No riches from his scanty store / My lover could impart; / He gave a boon I valued more - / He gave me all his heart!

  Helen Maria Williams

  Heart, Riches, Lovers

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• How sweet the harmonies of the afternoon!
  The Blackbird sings along the sunny breeze
  His ancient song of leaves, and summer boon;
  Rich breath of hayfields streams thro' whispering trees;
  And birds of morning trim their bustling wings,
  And listen fondly--while the Blackbird sings.

  Frederick Tennyson

  Summer, Sweet, Song

  Frederick Tennyson (1854). “Days and Hours”, p.190

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• I do think that I have been fortunate to make friendships with other scholars, and form reading groups where ideas are exchanged and papers are read. That is a real boon, and it is something I think every scholar or writer can benefit from.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Real, Reading, Thinking

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and proven value because somebody has given you money for the words that you've written, and that's terribly important, it's a tremendous boon to the ego, to your sense of self-reliance, to your feeling about your own talent.

  Rod Serling

  Self, Feelings, Ego

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that would otherwise drive me stark raving mad.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Mad, Bored

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.223, Storey Publishing

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• To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.

  Sophocles

  May, Born, Match Point

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• Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.

  Melina Marchetta

  Falling In Love, Book, People

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• The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Family, Heaven, Being Thankful

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.103

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• The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.

  Diane Ravitch

  School, Gutters, Ladders

  Diane Ravitch (2000). “The Great School Wars: A History of the New York City Public Schools”, p.244, JHU Press

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