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I. The Ring and the Book

Do you see this Ring?
'T is Rome-work, made to match
(By Castellani's imitative craft)
Etrurian circlets found, some happy morn,
After a dropping April; found alive
Spark-like 'mid unearthed slope-side figtree-roots
That roof old tombs at Chiusi: soft, you see,
Yet crisp as jewel-cutting. There's one trick,
(Craftsmen instruct me) one approved device
And but one, fits such slivers of pure gold
As this was,—such mere oozings from the mine,
Virgin as oval tawny pendent tear
At beehive-edge when ripened combs o'erflow,—
To bear the file's tooth and the hammer's tap:
Since hammer needs must widen out the round,
And file emboss it fine with lily-flowers,
Ere the stuff grow a ring-thing right to wear.
That trick is, the artificer melts up wax
With honey, so to speak; he mingles gold
With gold's alloy, and, duly tempering both,

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poem by Robert Browning from The Ring and the Book
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No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

quote by Edward R. Murrow
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Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

quote by George Steiner
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Assassins

Assassins find accomplices. Man's merit
Has found him three, the hawk, the hound, the ferret.

poem by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices.

attributed to George Orwell
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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

quote by Voltaire
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All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.

quote by Edwin M. Stanton
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Jackie II

Suspected,
Busted,
A shoplifting syndicate!
In the land of your muse to respect the law;
And with other accomplices.
The modus operandi,
The hot chase! !
On different occasions with different information;
But noted in the land of your muse,
Because, the laws were being enforced!
And like the case of Jackie in court yesterday.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Soul Creator

Do as you must,
To accomplish that
Which fulfills your desires.

God eventually validates all deeds...
To evaluate them according to His wishes!
And not as you choose Him to do.
Or to gain attention.
Sought to adorn with additional blessings received.

From the moment of your birth,
You have been watched.

He rules without need of accomplices.
To do what He does alone.
And at His best as our Soul Creator.

Leaving many to live their whole lives...
Not 'getting it',
As He alone can solely give as it is 'given'.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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The Chartist's Complaint

Day! hast thou two faces,
Making one place two places?
One, by humble farmer seen,
Chill and wet, unlighted, mean,
Useful only, triste and damp,
Serving for a laborer's lamp?
Have the same mists another side,
To be the appanage of pride,
Gracing the rich man's wood and lake,
His park where amber mornings break,
And treacherously bright to show
His planted isle where roses glow?
O Day! and is your mightiness
A sycophant to smug success?
Will the sweet sky and ocean broad
Be fine accomplices to fraud?
O sun! I curse thy cruel ray!
Back, back to chaos, harlot Day!

poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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