"There where the course is, Delight makes all of the one mind, The riders upon the galloping horses, The crowd that closes in behind."
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"The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler."
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"The living can assist the imagination of the dead."
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"The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained."
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"Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God."
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"This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air."
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"My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head."
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"The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away."
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"Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high, And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher, Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire."
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"For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world."
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"Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens."
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"Though leaves are many, the root is one."
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"The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood."
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"Hammer your thoughts into unity."
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"An intellectual hate is the worst."
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"There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave."
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"The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!"
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"Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another."
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"For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend."
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"When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed."
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