"Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are."
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"There is no light in earth or heaven but the cold light of stars; and the first watch of night is given to the red planet Mars."
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"A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood."
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"Youth, hope, and love: To build a new life on a ruined life, To make the future fairer than the past, And make the past appear a troubled dream."
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"Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!"
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"All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep."
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"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."
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"The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone."
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"Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place."
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"No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears."
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"The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain."
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"Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher."
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"The soul...is audible, not visible."
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"Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work"
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"From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul."
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"When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it."
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"So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go, Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know."
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"Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay."
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"When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us."
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"The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed."
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