"Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours."
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"What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,--for if men read aright, methinks they would never read anything but poems. No history nor philosophy can supply their place."
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"Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital."
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"The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something."
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"Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm."
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"Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no more than the stylus, the pen he writes with; and it is not worth scraping and polishing, and gilding, unless it will write his thoughts the better for it. It is something for use, and not to look at. The question for us is, not whether Pope had a fine style, wrote with a peacock's feather, but whether he uttered useful thoughts."
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"So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old."
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"What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown."
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"The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact."
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"The only sin in the world is ignorance."
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"The body can feed the body only."
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"It seemed to me that man himself was like a half-emptied bottle of pale ale, which Time had drunk so far, yet stoppled tight for a while, and drifting about in the ocean of circumstances, but destined ere-long to mingle with the surrounding waves, or be spilled amid the sands of a distant shore."
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"Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there were not a divine fire kindled at the same time to warm your spirit?"
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"Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts."
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"It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business."
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"It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose."
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"There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen."
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"At least let us have healthy books."
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"New earths, new themes expect us."
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"We must have infinite faith in each other."
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