"Unless you can feel when the song is done No other is sweet in its rhythm; Unless you can feel when left by one That all men else go with him."
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"Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things."
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"And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight."
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"Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings."
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"What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all."
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"I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused."
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"If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand."
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"Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun."
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"My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God."
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"The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul."
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"When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . ."
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"My sun sets to raise again."
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"If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?"
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"Yet how proud we are, In daring to look down upon ourselves!"
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"God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song."
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"What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement."
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"The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!"
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"There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand."
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"And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain"
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"Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!"
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