"There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life."
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"Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best."
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"Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true."
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"God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world."
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"To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day."
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"Truth is within ourselves."
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"All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower."
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"Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters."
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"I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God."
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"If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls."
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"I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be."
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"As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire."
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"I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!"
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"If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent."
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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
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"A minute's success pays the failure of years."
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"The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!"
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"I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute."
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"Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up."
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"Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again."
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