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music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

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Although I do not hope to turn again Although I do not hope Although I do not hope to turn

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In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

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So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

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War among men defiles this world.

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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

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The journey, Not the destination matters.

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In the mountains, there you feel free.

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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

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One starts an action simply because one must do something.

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The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

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History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

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The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.

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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

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Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think

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Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.

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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet--and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

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