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The power of the visible is the invisible.

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Marianne Craig Moore
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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.
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We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained.
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When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.
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Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
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Men are monopolists of stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.
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