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 | "Such ever was love?s way: to rise, it stoops." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "Ah, but a man"s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what"s a heaven
for?" | |
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Found in the topic Ambition.
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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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Found in the topic Aim.
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| "Grow old with me! The best is yet to be." | |
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Found in the topic Old.
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| "Why comes temptation, but for man to meet And master and make crouch
beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?" | |
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Found in the topic Temptation.
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| "Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a
touch or taint." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Ambition is not what man does... But what man would do." | |
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Found in the topic Thank.
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| "What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to
stop?" | |
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Found in the topic Kissing.
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| "That "s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you
should think he never could recapture The first fine careless
rapture." | |
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Found in the topic Bird.
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| "When the fight begins within himself, A man "s worth
something." | |
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Found in the topic Self.
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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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Found in the topic Optimism.
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| "Progress, man"s distinctive mark alone, Not God"s, and not the
beasts: God is, they are; Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be." | |
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Found in the topic Progress.
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| "Our aspirations are our possibilities." | |
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Found in the topic Possibility.
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| "I give the fight up: let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook
for me. I want to be forgotten even by God." | |
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Found in the topic Fight.
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| "The year"s at the spring And day"s at the morn; Morning"s at seven;
The hill?side"s dew?pearled; The lark"s on the wing; The snail"s on the
thorn: God"s in his heaven, All"s right with the world!" | |
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Found in the topic Seasons.
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| "White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in
man, absolve him so: Life"s business being just the terrible
choice." | |
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Found in the topic Choice.
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| "Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the
diver,? One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he
rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge." | |
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Found in the topic Diving.
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| "So free we seem, so fettered fast we are." | |
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Found in the topic Liberty.
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| "All service ranks the same with God,? With God, whose puppets, best
and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first." | |
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Found in the topic Service.
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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: Our times are in His hand Who saith, ?A whole I
planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!?" | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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