On life

Life is given to us,
we earn it by giving it.

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Let the dead have the immortality of fame,
but the living the immortality of love.

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Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty
that can modulate their isolation into a
harmony with the whole.

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Life, like a child, laughs,
shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high 
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments 
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way 
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee 
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.