"But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise."
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"A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants."
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"Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all."
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"Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave."
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"Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining, Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day, Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining, Buds that open only to decay."
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"Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start."
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"Through woods and mountain passes The winds, like anthems, roll."
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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
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"Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest."
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"The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat."
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"The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama."
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"Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity."
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"Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions."
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"Where, twisted round the barren oak, The summer vine in beauty clung, And summer winds the stillness broke, The crystal icicle is hung."
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"The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him."
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"Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves."
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"Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending."
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"For it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. Hence is the inner life of so many suffering women Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers Runnng through caverns of darkness."
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"The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken."
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"Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong."
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