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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

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By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One aspect to the desert and the lake. It was her stern necessity : all things Are of one pattern made; bird, beast, and flower, Song, picture, form, space, thought, and character Deceive us, seeming to be many things, And are but one.

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The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

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With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.

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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

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The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

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It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.

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One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

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He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.

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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

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Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.

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We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

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What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

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No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

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The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

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In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

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God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

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Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

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Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

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The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

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