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As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

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As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease.

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Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

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Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.

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A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

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The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers.

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Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest.

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Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

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The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.

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Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.

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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

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The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine. To many the trumpet of fame is nothing but a tin horn to call them home, like laborers from, the field, at dinner-time, and they think themselves lucky to get the dinner.

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My Book and Heart Shall never part.

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Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes.

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To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.

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How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

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Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.

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O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?

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Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

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