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The Koreans have always been and still are a people of superb creative talents, but King Sejong, in the thirty years of his rule, became a deathless legend.
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Even our enemies call him 'great soul,' and declare that they are honored in defeat by such a one.
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The Empress Mother said with still more irritation, "I cannot understand why we must have a foreign religion here when we have three good religions of our own."
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He had long been her favorite, yet every eunuch knew that the favor of a ruler is less stable than sunlight in early spring. At any moment it can be withdrawn, and as soon can a eunuch's head tumble from his shoulders.
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the doctrine of isolationism and
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It is better to live than to die, and peace is better than war, and though there are some who deny this as robbers do, the truth remains what it is.
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The time had come for him to use a dangerous weapon. "Venerable," he said, "if the Emperor's manhood was destroyed, how is it that he begot a son and one so sturdy as the young Emperor?"
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many a woman would have let her mind lie idle while she worked in the fields, but I have ever seen this difference between you and other women, that your mind cannot be idle, and I say I never know what is coming out of you. And so I never tire of you, old woman.
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rulers anywhere are always the first to fly, and the people must stay behind to be steadfast. And the noise of the battle grew more strong, hour by hour.
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He had collected from every place where he had hid his little stores of gain and he had borrowed all he could, and he could not even have had this except by bitter, frugal living.
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And will you understand me when I say I would fight to keep you free from such beliefs because for you they would be false, and at the same time I would fight to keep my mother in those same beliefs because for her they are true and necessary? She would be lost without them, for by them she has lived and by them she must die. But you and l--we must have our own beliefs to live and die in
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island of Komudo,
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she began, "Truly it is a very shameful sight to see one who should be"
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This country of his was not like some others he had heard of, where only in war was there work enough to be done. He had often sat listening in the tea shop to those who talked of things they had seen in foreign countries, and this he held was a main difference, that in foreign countries war was a business, but here it had never been.
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The truth is I cannot hate wholly enough to kill a man. I always know how he feels, too.
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by some 220 years Gutenberg's lead-cast printing type in Germany in 1450.
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All was well with the land and when all was well with the land then everything was well.
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Loneliness is only sweet to a man if it rids him of presences irksome and unwanted, and it is no longer sweet when the beloved presences are discovered.
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If it were true that there could be good men among the enemy, then indeed she must still be afraid. If righteous, the white men were stronger than she reckoned, and she kept this fear hidden in her so long as she lived thereafter.
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The fruit of her life is her grandson who is not yet born.
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You see how loving kindness conquers fear, even in animals. Let this lesson be engraved upon your hearts.
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This imperial woman, so diverse and rich in her genius, might have chosen her own greatness had she been able to single one gift above another, but she could not make her own choice of what she loved best to do, and so she did something of each and in all she excelled. As for those affairs of state which had absorbed her until
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Yes, their ancients had taught them that no good man would be a soldier and that the warlike man was the least of men and not to be respected, and so they had all believed.
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In a strange and ominous way the fate of women everywhere in the world is linked with the trend toward fascism. To delay might mean to be compelled to silence.
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Well, and every man has his troubles and I must make shift to live with mine as I can,
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They stood, eyes meeting eyes, yet neither took the next step toward the other. "When I know what reward is great enough," she said, "then I will give it to you." "Because you live I am rewarded," he replied."
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This foreign one has no fear of anything in her, although she is not beautiful as the Fourth Lady was beautiful. She does not trouble herself. She accepts as her right the interest of men. She makes no effort to win their glances. She seems to say, "This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise."
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It is not that we cannot believe," he replied. "It is that we do not want anything enough. Faith rises from necessity. We have no necessity."
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and when he was weary he lay down upon his land and he slept and the health of the earth spread into his flesh and he was healed of his sickness.
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This seems right to them today and that tomorrow and they do not know that one man's mind cannot say what is the true right for another. No, in their pride of a little learning they rush out to do evil
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The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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