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People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

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Fortune befriends the bold.

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Is wholesome even for the King.

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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

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They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

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A wounded deer leaps the highest.

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Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat.

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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

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Where thou art, that is home.

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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

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'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

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Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

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For Love is Immortality.

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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

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