"So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can!"

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"To be great is to be misunderstood."

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"Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive."

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"Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young And always keep us so."

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"Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore."

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"Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others."

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"Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it."

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"We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count."

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"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy."

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"Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave."

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"It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time."

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"Fear not, then, thou child infirm; There 's no god dare wrong a worm."

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"Good bye, proud world! I 'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I 'm not thine."

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"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."

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"Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die."

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"I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue."

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"If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being."

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"He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread."

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"Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old."

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"God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth."

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"When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.""

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"The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century."

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"By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattl'd farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world."

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"And with Cæsar to take in his hand the army, the empire, and Cleopatra, and say, "All these will I relinquish if you will show me the fountain of the Nile.""

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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."

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"Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world."

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"Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions."

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"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."

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"Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names."

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"The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye."

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"What potent blood hath modest May!"

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"Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts."

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"There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behaviour yield to the energy of the individual."

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"The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue."

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"None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have."

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"And every man, in love or pride, Of his fate is never wide."

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"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."

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"Nor mourn the unalterable Days That Genius goes and Folly stays."

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"Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes."

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"Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will."

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"I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes."

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"I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed, whether Arab in the desert or Frenchman in the Academy. I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion."

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"Nose, nose, nose, nose! And who gave thee that jolly red nose? Sinament and Ginger, Nutmegs and Cloves, And that gave me my jolly red nose."

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"No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung; Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. Majestic silence!"

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"I see them on their winding way, About their ranks the moonbeams play."

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"Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile."

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"Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower."

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"From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand."

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"Thou art gone to the grave; but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb."

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"When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil."

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