"The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"
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"Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also."
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"It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched."
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"O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire."
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"Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once."
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"What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?"
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"Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do."
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"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character."
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"There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing."
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"Night conceals a world but reveals a universe."
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"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!"
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"Truth never hurts the teller."
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"Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet."
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"One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake."
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"For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love."
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"God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations."
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"A pretty woman's worth some pains to see."
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"Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear."
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"What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me."
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"It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least."
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