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Just the one prize vouchsafed unworthy me, / Seven years a gardener of the untoward ground.

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He's Judas to a tittle, that man is! / Just such a face!

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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for

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Creation purged o' the miscreate, man redeemed, / A spittle wiped off from the face of God!

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I watched my foolish heart expand / In the lazy glow of benevolence, / O'er the various modes of man's belief.

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made:

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'You're wounded!' 'Nay,' his soldier's pride Touched to the quick, he said:...

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I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance!

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O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

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And as she died so must we die ourselves, And thence ye may perceive the world's a dream. Life, how and what is it?

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No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers / The heroes of old, / Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears / Of pain, darkness and cold.

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

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Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

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That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call

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Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

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When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

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Ye know why the forms are fair, ye hear how the tale is told: It is all triumphant art, but art in obedience to laws,

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No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old,...

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