"Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood."
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"Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing."
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"I love thee, as the good love heaven."
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"The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine."
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"The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden."
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"Oh, how short are the days! How soon the night overtakes us!"
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"Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest."
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"Death is better than disease."
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"The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease."
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"As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease."
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"And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox."
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"Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!"
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"Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air."
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"The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven."
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"A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground."
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"Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse."
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"Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land."
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"Life like an empty dream flits by."
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"No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing."
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"Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into light."
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