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The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light.

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With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.

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The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls.

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Youth, hope, and love: To build a new life on a ruined life, To make the future fairer than the past, And make the past appear a troubled dream.

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How wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man is enthroned visibly on his forehead and in his eye, and the heart of man is written on his countenance, but the soul, the soul reveals itself in the voice only.

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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

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Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.

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In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.

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History casts its shadow far into the land of song.

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To be strong is to be happy!

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The Mormons make the marriage ring, like the ring of Saturn, fluid, not solid, and keep it in its place by numerous satellites.

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Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.

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Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

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Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection! Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike, Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy of heaven.

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Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

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In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

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