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And the bright faces of my young companions Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more.

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The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama.

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

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The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

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A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat.

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A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

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What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

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I am the Angel of the Sun Whose flaming wheels began to run When God's almighty breath Said to the darkness and the Night, Let there be light! and there was light.

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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

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How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

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Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

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No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

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Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

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

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The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary.

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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

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To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

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The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.

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I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.

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