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The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

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Money is like sex. Some people believe that the more sexual experiences they have, with as many different people as possible, the more fulfill...

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

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Of Heaven of Hell I have no power to sing, I cannot ease the burden of your fears,...

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I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?

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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

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It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

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Pass into nothingness.

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Health is my expected heaven.

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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.

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Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

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Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

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Love in a hut, with water and a crust, is - Lover, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust.

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O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delvid earth.

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He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

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