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Our faith triumphant o'er our fears.

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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

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No action, whether foul or fair, Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere A record, written by fingers ghostly, As a blessing or a curse, and mostly In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it.

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Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing from the top of the house as if they had built it.

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Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing.

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As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, And leave his broken playthings on the floor. Still gazing at them through the open door, Nor wholly reassured and comforted By promises of others in their stead Which, the more splendid, may not please him more; So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know.

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Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

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Through woods and mountain passes The winds, like anthems, roll.

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The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes.

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What child has a heart to sing in this capricious clime of ours, when spring comes sailing in from the sea, with wet and heavy cloud-sails and the misty pennon of the east-wind nailed to the mast.

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The history of the past is a mere puppet-show. A little man comes out and blows a little trumpet, and goes in again. You look for something new, and lo! another little man comes out, and blows another little trumpet, and goes in again. And it is all over.

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In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

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Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.

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An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.

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Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

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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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More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.

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