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

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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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The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary, And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.

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I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.

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It is the heart and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain.

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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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The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark

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Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into light.

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Were a star quenched on high,For ages would its light,Still travelling downward from the sky,Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,For years beyond our ken,The light he leaves behind him liesUpon the paths of men.

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The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.

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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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My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.

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My Book and Heart Shall never part.

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As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

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An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its dungeon the limits of the universe, and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence.

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

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I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and beside his own very agreeable society, I shall enjoy that of the most noted literary men of the day, which will be a great gratification to me.

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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

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In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.

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

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