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I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.

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From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

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Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

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One brave deed makes no hero.

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When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

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'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.

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Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.

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The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

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To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.

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And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

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A weed is but an unloved flower.

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When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

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The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.

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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

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You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

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If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.

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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.

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