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The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

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We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

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The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.

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Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

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Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

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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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Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

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Do your work, but do your thing.

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Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the unvierse, what is it to me? Who hath forged the chains of wrong and right, of Opinion and Custom? And must I wear them?

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The best of life is conversation.

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We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.

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A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

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If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.

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An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.

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Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

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Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

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It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or

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I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

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To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.

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