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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

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To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".

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Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

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If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change.

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The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance.

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Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse. To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing, As in a foundering ship.

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The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

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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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Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

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'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

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Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

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Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

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For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!

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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

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Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

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Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

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All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

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