"We pass for what we are."
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"Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward."
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"Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character."
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"All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes."
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"it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower."
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"Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant by his marks,- Golden curls, and quiver, and bow."
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"A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays."
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"The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love; With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above. His blinding light He flingeth white On God's and Satan's brood, And reconciles By mystic wiles The evil and the good."
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"At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act."
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"We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly."
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"The escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful relation, these are the essentials."
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"Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing."
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"Life is to be lived, not controlled."
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"Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?"
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"Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none."
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"Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight."
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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."
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"For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded."
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"Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories."
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"If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes."
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