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It is known that Whistler when asked how long it took him to paint one of his "nocturnes" answered: "All of my life." With the same rigor he c...

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And time brings down what is both strong and tall. But plants new set to be eradicate,...

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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

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Nor youth, nor strength, nor wisdom spring again, Nor habitations long their names retain, But in oblivion to the final day remain.

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Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold I pray....

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O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things, That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;

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I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits,...

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But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

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A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

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Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.

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Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.

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In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

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Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

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There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing of old random jottings set down in a blank book you've unearthed from a drawer as you looked for your bank book.

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Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

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Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

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I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

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