"The one thing finished in this hasty world."

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"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character."

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"What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticised for us!"

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"'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking."

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"In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing."

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"One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world."

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"If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book,--and that is a book honestly come by."

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"No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil."

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"Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,-- Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me."

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"These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread."

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"All thoughts that mould the age begin Deep down within the primitive soul."

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"Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity."

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"There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business."

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"Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is."

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"Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet 's done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same."

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"Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne."

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"Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary."

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"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."

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"Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man; He 's ben on all sides thet give places or pelf; But consistency still wuz a part of his plan,-- He 's ben true to one party, an' thet is himself."

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"Ez fer war, I call it murder,-- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God."

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"She doeth little kindnesses Which most leave undone, or despise."

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"Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past."

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"In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential."

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"Of my merit On thet pint you yourself may jedge; All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge."

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"Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come."

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"It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century."

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"Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own."

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"Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold."

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"It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland."

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"The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment."

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"Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction."

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"We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage."

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"No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself."

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"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

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"Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen.""

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"Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?"

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"This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur."

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"Our Pilgrim stock wuz pithed with hardihood."

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"Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,-- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one."

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"Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many."

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"In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained: know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she 'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me"?"

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"Earth's noblest thing,--a woman perfected."

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"'T was kin' o' kingdom-come to look On sech a blessed cretur."

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"Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's new Messiah offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light."

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"There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on."

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"Yet it lies in my little one's cradle, And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she 's gone to Transfigures its golden hair."

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"Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it."

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"Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men."

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"Though old the thought and oft exprest, 'T is his at last who says it best."

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"The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."

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