"truth outlives pain, as the soul does life."
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"A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation."
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"And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death."
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"What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?"
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"I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death."
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"What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?"
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"The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love."
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"If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only."
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"The essence of all beauty, I call love."
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"Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy."
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"I should not dare to call my soul my own."
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"The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars."
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"What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes."
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"As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose."
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"God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame."
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"World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain."
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"Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death."
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"There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell."
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"Many a crown Covers bald foreheads."
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"Never say No when the world says Aye."
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