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/ page 112 of 1205 /My sun sets to rise again.
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
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That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
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Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
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Most of the people who will walk behind me will be children so make the beat keep time with short steps.
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Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.
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It is God who lets the wild apples grow, to satisfy the hungry. He showed her a wild apple-tree, with the boughs bending under the weight of the fruit. Here she took her midday meal, placing props under the boughs, and then went into the darkest part of the forest. There it was so still that she could hear her own footsteps, as well as the rustling of every dry leaf which bent under her feet. Not one bird was to be seen, not one ray of sunlight could find its way through the great dark boughs of the trees; the lofty trunks stood so close together that when she looked before her it appeared as though she were surrounded by sets of palings one behind the other. O, here was solitude such as she had never before known!
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Where words fail, music speaks.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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I cannot bear it! said the pewter soldier. I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers.
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Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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....Then he felt quite ashamed, and hid his head under his wing; for he did not know what to do, he was so happy, and yet not at all proud. He had been persecuted and despised for his ugliness, and now he heard them say he was the most beautiful of all the birds. Even the elder-tree bent down its bows into the water before him, and the sun shone warm and bright. He would never became vain or conceited, and would always remembered how it felt to be despised and teased, and he was very sorry for all the creatures who are so treated merely because they are different from those around them. Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart,
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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
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Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale of all.
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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
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I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
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