"But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?"
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"The past is gained, secure, and on record."
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"Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men."
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"All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves."
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"If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens."
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"Outside are the storms and strangers: we — Oh, close, safe, warm sleep I and she, — I and she!"
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"Since there my past life lies, why alter it?"
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"Oh, to be in England now that April's there."
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"Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!"
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"Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage."
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"What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes."
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"Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint."
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"You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls."
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"Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fulness; and around, Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in, This perfect, clear perception-which is truth. A baffling and perverting carnal mesh Binds it, and makes all error: and to know Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without."
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"Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be."
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"Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?"
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"Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart."
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"Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!"
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"Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?"
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"How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!"
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