"To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends."
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"If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes."
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"Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."
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"Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty."
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"Every person born into this world their work is born with them."
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"That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong.""
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"Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence."
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"Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies - it plays right into the hands of managers who are very focused on research and stock picking."
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"To make the common marvelous is the test of genius."
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"A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions."
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"Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves."
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"Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake."
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"Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting."
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"The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases."
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"The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself."
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"Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought."
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"God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs."
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"Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail."
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"He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned."
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"The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us."
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