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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roarI love not Man the less, but Nature more.

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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

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Opinions are made to be changed -or how is truth to be got at?

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The busy have no time for tears.

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Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

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It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

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I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.

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I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day.

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Intelligence is nothing without delight.

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How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods

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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

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I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

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Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

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