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A rich man's joke is always funny.

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I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

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He lives most life whoever breathes most air.

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What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

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A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.

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What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

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Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

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Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

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First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

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All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.

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No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.

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It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

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Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

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