"Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies."
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"The bravest are the tenderest."
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"Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon."
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"Well I know the secret places, And the nests in hedge and tree; At what doors are friendly faces, In what hearts are thoughts of me."
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"In the long run men hit only what they aim at."
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"Don't cross the bridge til you come to it."
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"Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?"
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"No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving."
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"Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul."
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"A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own skill, not of the pain he is giving."
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"An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away."
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"People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love."
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"The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark"
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"Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours."
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"He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels."
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"Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood."
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"The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes."
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"Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs."
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"Oh, what a glory doth this world put on, for him who with a fervent heart goes forth under the bright and glorious sky, and looks on duties well performed, and days well spent."
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"The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary."
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