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Robinson Jeffers - Time Of DisturbanceRobinson Jeffers - Time Of Disturbance
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The best is, in war or faction or ordinary vindictive     life, not to take sides. Leave it for children, and the emotional rabble of the     streets, to back their horse or support a brawler. But if you are forced into it: remember that good and     evil are as common as air, and like air shared By the panting belligerents; the moral indignation that     hoarsens orators is mostly a fool. Hold your nose and compromise; keep a cold mind. Fight,     if needs must; hate no one. Do as God does, Or the tragic poets: they crush their man without hating     him, their Lear or Hitler, and often save without     love. As for these quarrels, they are like the moon, recurrent     and fantastic. They have their beauty but night`s     is better. It is better to be silent than make a noise. It is better     to strike dead than strike often. It is better not     to strike.
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