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/ page 19 of 1205 /Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat.
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But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will.
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If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and description of men in society to be able to say for itself what it wants, and not to have other classes, the so-called educated and intelligent classes, acting for it as its proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and to provide for them. A class of men may often itself not either fully understand its wants, or adequately express them; but it has a nearer interest and a more sure diligence in the matter than any of its proctors, and therefore a better chance of success.
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Eternal passion! Eternal pain!
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.
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...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening...
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One moment, on the rapid's top, our boat Hung poised —and then the darting river of Life...
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;—
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But—if you cannot give us ease— Last of the race of them who grieve...
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Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!
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O life unlike to ours! Who fluctuate idly without term or scope,...
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Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
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Her cabined, ample spirit, It fluttered and failed for breath. Tonight it doth inherit The vasty hall of death.
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'Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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