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/ page 994 of 1205 /All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
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My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.
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From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
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Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
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Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
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Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.
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Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.
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I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.
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Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore.
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I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.
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The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.
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