"Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly."
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"He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times."
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"Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth."
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"Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers."
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"Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool of him ne'er make; Ne'er as friend the swift one know, Nor the constant one as foe."
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"Truth is more than a dream and a song."
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"Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column."
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"Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned."
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"Far must thy researches go Wouldst thou learn the world to know; Thou must tempt the dark abyss Wouldst thou prove what Being is; Naught but firmness gains the prize, Naught but fullness makes us wise, Buried deep truth e'er lies."
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"There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom."
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"Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality."
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"The brave person thinks of himself last of all."
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"The victor is often vanquished by his own success."
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"What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins."
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"Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure."
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"Life did not present its sunny side to thee."
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"If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary to have clearly before you what you require . . . It is certainly tasteless and inconsistent to desire to encompass the world with a garden-wall, but very practicable and reasonable to make a garden . . . into a characteristic whole to the eye, heart, and nderstanding alike."
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"In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes."
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"There is no solitude in nature."
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"Weep, for the light is dead."
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