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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

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Lord, give to me who are old and rougher The things that little children suffer, And let keep bright and undefiled The young years of the little child.

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Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.

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Each one could be a Jesus mild, Each one has been a little child, A little child with laughing look, A lovely white unwritten book; A book that God will take, my friend, As each goes out at journey's end.

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What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?

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Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

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In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.

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On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street, The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet, With a word here of the hills, and a song there of the sea And-the great movement changes-the pageant passes me.

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His face was filled with broken commandments.

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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

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I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

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Life is a long headache in a noisy street.

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I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.

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The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.

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Man cannot call the brimming instant back; Time's an affair of instants spun to days; If man must make an instant gold, or black, Let him, he may; but Time must go his ways. Life may be duller for an instant's blaze. Life's an affair of instants spun to years, Instants are only cause of all these tears.

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Love is a flame to burn out human wills, Love is a flame to set the will on fire, Love is a flame to cheat men into mire.

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The Lord who gave us Earth and Heaven Takes that as thanks for all He's given. The book he lent is given back All blotted red and smutted black.

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Humans consist of body, mind and imagination. Our bodies are faulty, our minds untrustworthy, but our imagination has made us remarkable.

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To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

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I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

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