"How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off."
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"The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise."
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"If you give money, spend yourself with it."
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"The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it."
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"One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then"
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"As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done."
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"Between whom there is hearty truth there is love."
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"Spring-an experience in immortality."
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"Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and the hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide."
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"We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature."
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"A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance."
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"Life in us is like the water in a river."
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"Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it."
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"Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech."
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"Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man."
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"If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things."
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"It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around."
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"When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn."
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"The only danger in Friendship is that it will end."
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"Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one."
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