They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
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When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away, And in a dream as in a fairy bark Drift on and on through the enchanted dark To purple daybreak--little thought we pay To that sweet bitter world we know by day.
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Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes, And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.
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Books that have become classics -- books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal -- always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
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What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
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The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks.
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The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
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Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.
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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
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It doesn't concern me that they might have check lists to follow. I've seen the ones that have been proposed by the county commissioners, and it seemed to me reasonable that their lawyers would lay that kind of information out for them like that. I see it as a reasonable method to make sure they comply with the law.
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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
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Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
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We live in deeds
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Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
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To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
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Kindness is wisdom.
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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
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I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.
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There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
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The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
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My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.
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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
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I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
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Art is a man's nature nature is God's art.
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Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.
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There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat it.
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When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.
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