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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

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A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

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My own thoughts Are my companions.

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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.

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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

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O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

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Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.

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Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.

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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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Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,-- The wounded from the battle-plain, In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors. Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls.

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Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.

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The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

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Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide.

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Youth comes but once a life time. Perhaps, but it remains strong in many for their entire lives.

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The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.

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Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the resolute will of a strong man scorns such means, and struggles nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds.

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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

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For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

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My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

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