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Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

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Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

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A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

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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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The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

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

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I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children, and I like to have them liked.

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O little souls! as pure as white And crystalline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine; Refracted through the mist of years, How red my setting sun appears, How lurid looks this soul of mine!

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Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

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God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men.

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Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

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Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

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Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

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And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!" Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: "God is not dead, nor doth he sleep! The Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, With peace on earth, good-will to men!

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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

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Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more.

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

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