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

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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

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Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

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Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.

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The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

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For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old.

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There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty.

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It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

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Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

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Every man has his secret sorrows.

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Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.

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For it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. Hence is the inner life of so many suffering women Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers Runnng through caverns of darkness.

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Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.

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I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

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Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!

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A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.

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Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care.

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Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.

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The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.

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All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.

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