"Look, then, into thine heart, and write!"

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"Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time."

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"God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting."

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"Into a world unknown,--the corner-stone of a nation!"

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"There is a reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between."

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"The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight."

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"There is no death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death."

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"The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain."

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"Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know erelong,-- Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong."

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"Hospitality sitting with Gladness."

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"No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own."

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"Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels."

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"The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead."

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"Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine."

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"Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead."

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"There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there; There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair."

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"He has singed the beard of the king of Spain."

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"Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within, and God o'erhead!"

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"Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary."

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"The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken."

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"Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number."

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"What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps."

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"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."

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"In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the gods see everywhere."

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"When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music."

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"And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever."

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"Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn."

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"The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night."

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"All things come round to him who will but wait."

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"The prayer of Ajax was for light."

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"O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!"

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"She floats upon the river of his thoughts."

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"There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery."

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"For Time will teach thee soon the truth, There are no birds in last year's nest!"

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"Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,-- Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee,--are all with thee!"

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"Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait."

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"Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame."

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"Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!"

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"The Survival of the Fittest."

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"The morn, look you, furthers a man on his road, and furthers him too in his work."

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"Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season."

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"Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses."

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"They died, as if o'ercome by sleep."

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"For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea; and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice. So utterly impossible is it to escape the will of Zeus."

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"For himself doth a man work evil in working evils for another."

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"Fools! they know not how much half exceeds the whole."

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"A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing."

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"At the beginning of the cask and at the end take thy fill, but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom saving comes too late. Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly."

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"Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death."

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"Both potter is jealous of potter and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet."

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