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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

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Truth - is as old as God-.

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There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.

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Publication - is the auction of the mind.

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Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.

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Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground

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The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal

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I . . . am small, like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr; and my eyes like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves.

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Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.

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Opinion is a flitting thing But Truth outlasts the Sun.

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Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies

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I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run.

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Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence - is denied them. They fling their Speech By means of it - in God's Ear - If then He hear - This sums the Apparatus Comprised in Prayer

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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

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A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.

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I stepped from Plank to Plank A slow and cautious way

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I took my Power in my Hand -- And went against the World -- 'Twas not so much as David -- had -- But I -- was twice as bold -- I aimed by Pebble -- but Myself Was all the one that fell -- Was it Goliath -- was too large -- Or was myself -- too small?

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Nothing is the force that renovates the World.

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We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.

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You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!

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