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For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'

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How dwarfed against his manliness she sees the poor pretension, the wants, the aims, the follies, born of fashion and convention!

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For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been!"

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The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.

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And the song she was singing ever since In my ear sounds on:—...

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Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.

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Went drearily singing the chore-girl small, Draping each hive with a shred of black.

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Yet sometimes glimpses on my sight, Through present wrong the eternal right; And, step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man...

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Beasts in their major freedom Slumber in peace tonight.

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The good grey guardians of art Patrol the halls on spongy shoes, Impartially protective, though Perhaps suspicious of Toulouse.

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the beautiful changes In such kind ways,...

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I started in to cry and call his name, ...

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My dog lay dead five days without a grave

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Even when seen from near, the olive shows A hue of far away. Perhaps for this...

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All true enough: and true as well that she Was beautiful, and danced, and is now dead.

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The rare original heartsblood goes, Spends on the earthen hide, in the folds and wizenings, flows...

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Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

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