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Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

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Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

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The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

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All promise outruns performance.

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Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

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Skill to do comes of doing.

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All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

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Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.

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What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.

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The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

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Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

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The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.

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The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

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There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

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It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

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There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

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Life is a series of surprises.

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Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the stricter theunion, the smaller and the more pitiful he is. But leave him alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul, he will go up and down doing the works of a true member, and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.

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