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"A man who tries to carry a cat home by its tail will learn a lesson that can be learned in no other way"
-Mark Twain-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain

http://www.cmgww.com/historic/twain/

"If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind."

John Stuart Mill, Born 1806 - died 1873

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill

"It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."

Jeremy Bentham
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Bentham.html

"MY SOUL IS MY COUNSEL and has taught me to give ear to the voices which are created neither by tongues nor uttered by throats.
"Before my soul became my counsel, I was dull, and weak of hearing, reflecting only upon the tumult and the cry. But, now, I can listen to silence with serenity and can hear in the silence the hymns of ages chanting exaltation to the sky and revealing the secrets of eternity."

By: KAHLIL GIBRAN, From 'Mirrors of the Soul, facing title page; Translated by Joseph Sheban Philosophical Library, New York 1965,
http://leb.net/gibran/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalil_Gibran


Khalil Gibran (full name Gibran Khalil Gibran bin Mikhael bin Saâd, Arabic: جبران خليل جبران بن ميخائيل بن سعد, Syriac: ܟ݂ܠܝܠ ܔܒܪܢ (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) was a Lebanese American artist, poet and writer. He was born in Lebanon (at the time the Mount Lebanon Province of the Ottoman Empire) and spent most of his life in the United States. He is the third bestselling poet in history after Shakespeare and Lao Tse. [1]

Related Link: Ottoman Empire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire


for copies of the classical poetry listed, just click on the appropriate URL:

1. Around the Corner by Charles Hansen Towne

http://www.yuni.com/library/docs/354.html

2. It Couldn't Be Done by Edgar A Guest

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/graduation/poems-rhymes/it-couldnt-be-done.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Guest

3. They First Came... (a poem regarding the Holocaust)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

4. Desiderata by Max Ehrmann

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderata

http://www.fleurdelis.com/desidera.htm

5. To A Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Bryant/waterfowl.html

6. A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=81397

7. Crossing the Bar by Alfred Lord Tennyson

http://charon.sfsu.edu/TENNYSON/tennyson.html

8. The Fool's Prayer by Edward R. Sill

http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_fools_prayer.html

9. The Eternal Goodness by John Greenleaf Whittier

http://wwwl.kimopress.com/whittier.htm

http://www.all-creatures.org/poetry/theeternalgoodness.html

10. Yellow Triangle by Christy Moore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7y-9FqLluQ