Sweet William!
O sweet everlasting Voices, be still.
~ William Butler Yeats, from The Wind Among the Reeds (1899). The Everlasting Voices

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Splendor from within! It is the only thing which makes the real and lasting splendor without. Trust that inevitable law of self-expression. Be, not seem! Be, to seem!
~ William Channing Gannett, Of Making One's Self Beautiful (1899). Of Faces and Their Making

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In Wilson, the whole of mankind breaks camp, sets out from home and wrestles with the universe and its gods.
~ William Bolitho, Twelve Against the Gods (1930).

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