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All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

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Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

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Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.

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Look, then, into thine heart, and write!

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I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.

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Music is the universal language of mankind.

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When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.

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Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.

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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

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

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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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I love thee, as the good love heaven.

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Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory on the autumn woods, And dipping in warm light the pillared clouds. Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird, Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf, and stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved, Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the wayside a-weary.

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Our faith triumphant o'er our fears.

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One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.

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Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

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Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?

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

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A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

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