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"If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race."
"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury."
"To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots."
"Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market."
"In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines."
"Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices."
"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."
"It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone."
"I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory."
"God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur."
"Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics."
"The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale."
"A brave soul is a thing which all things serve."
"The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman."
"How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea."
"The sea complains upon a thousand shores."
"The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself."
"Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature."
"Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings."
"A single soul is richer than all the worlds."