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If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

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He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.

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Teach us to care and not to care

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

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The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

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Every moment is a new and shocking transvaluation of all we have ever been.

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The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

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Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

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Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.

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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep

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Human kind cannot bear much reality.

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All time is unreedemable.

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Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

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Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

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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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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

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Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicatied Of dead and living, Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment . . .

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Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

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