"But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love."
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"I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good."
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"All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth."
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"I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost."
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"Words are but holy as the deeds they cover."
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"All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially."
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"Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness."
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"I stood within the city disinterred; And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfalls Of spirits passng through the streets; and heard the Mountain's slumberous voice at intervals Thrill through those roofless halls; The oracular thunder penetrating shook The listening soul in my suspended blood."
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"Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!"
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"Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar."
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"Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity."
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"How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!"
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"The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is a low mist which cannot blot The brightness it may veil."
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"Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind; The foul cubs like their parents are."
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"Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken."
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"Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom."
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"Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls"
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"In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet"
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"One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it."
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"Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude."
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