"The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead."
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"Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave"
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"What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life."
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"All things are symbols."
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"A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat."
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"O lovely river of Yvette! O darling river! like a bride, Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide. O lovely river Yvette! O darling stream! on balanced wings The wood-birds sang the chansonnette That here a wandering poet sings."
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"Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen."
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"Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry."
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"The nimble lie Is like the second-hand upon a clock; We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen, And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike Till it has reached the goal."
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"Look, then, into thine heart, and write! Yes, into Life's deep stream! All forms of sorrow and delight, All solemn Voices of the Night, That can soothe thee, or affright, - Be these henceforth thy theme. (excerpt from "Voices of the Night")"
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"But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach"."
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"The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us; at noon we trample them under foot; and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us."
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"How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending,--the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time."
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"Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite."
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"Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets."
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"Fair words gladden so many a heart."
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"Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero."
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"Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction."
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"Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts."
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"Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life."
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