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You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was the scourge of God.

Edward Everett Hale

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Edward Everett Hale
Age: 87 †
Born: 1822
Born: April 3
Died: 1909
Died: June 10
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Minister
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Science Fiction Writer
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Boston
Massachusetts
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In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which will continue to exist there when the last of their radiant host shall have fallen from heaven.
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