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 | "Many love music but for music"s sake, Many because her touches can
awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise to follow
where she loves to lead. What various feelings come from days gone by! What
tears from far-off sources dim the eye! Few, when light fingers with sweet
voices play, And melodies swell, pause, and melt away, Mind how at every
touch, at every tone, A spark of life hath glistened and hath gone." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt; if
there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom,
no knowledge, no genius." | |
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Found in the topic Youth.
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| "I strove with none; for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved,
and next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It
sinks, and I am ready to depart." | |
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Found in the topic Departure.
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| "George the First was always reckoned Vile, but viler George the
Second; And what mortal ever heard Any good of George the Third? When from
earth the Fourth descended God be praised, the Georges ended!" | |
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Found in the topic Kindness.
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| "The bird of wisdom flies low, and seeks her food under hedges; the
eagle himself would be starved if he always soared aloft and against the
sun." | |
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Found in the topic Wisdom.
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| "Absence and death are the same ? only that in death there is no
suffering." | |
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Found in the topic Absent.
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| "The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of
love." | |
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Found in the topic Anger.
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| "Heat and animosity, contest and conflict may sharpen the wits,
although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear
the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart." | |
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Found in the topic Argument.
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| "Delay in justice is injustice." | |
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Found in the topic Justice.
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| "I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them,
and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not
to call them back; ?twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know
they?ll shine again." | |
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Found in the topic Dream.
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| "Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the
turbid look the most profound." | |
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Found in the topic Writing.
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| "People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose
direction and begin to bend." | |
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Found in the topic Direction.
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