"The sin forgiven by Christ in HeavenBy man is cursed alway."
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"But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!"
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"The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street."
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"The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters, And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me, And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue, And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul, Sitting amid their ruins."
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"Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies! You lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like a mountaineer."
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"Spring is a beautiful piece of work; and not to be in the country to see it done is the not realizing what glorious masters we are, and how cheerfully, minutely, and unflaggingly the fair fingers of the season broider the world for us."
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"The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse."
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"Blessed are the joymakers."
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"The position you hold and the work you are now doing."
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"The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven."
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"There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness."
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"Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life."
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"We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us."
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"There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty."
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"There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness among the common herbs of pastures, and breathe their lives so unobtrusively, like hearts whose beatings are too gentle for the world."
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"The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding."
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"The soul of man createth its own destiny."
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"The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel."
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"Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses."
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"The night is made for tenderness,--so still that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is heard like music,--and so deeply pure that the fond thought is chastened as it springs and on the lip made holy."
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