"When is man strong until he feels alone?"

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"Are there not, dear Michal, 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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"Over my head his arm he flung Against the world."

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"There 's a woman like a dewdrop, she 's so purer than the purest."

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"God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear, To give sign we and they are his children, one family here."

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"God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides,--one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her!"

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"What 's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes."

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"Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat."

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"Rafael made a century of sonnets."

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"'T is not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do."

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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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"I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,--what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time."

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"When the liquor 's out, why clink the cannikin?"

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"We shall march prospering,--not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,--not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,--while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire."

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"Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy.'""

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"God 's in his heaven: All 's right with the world."

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"Sing, riding 's a joy! For me I ride."

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"I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God,--the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures. I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward,--Nature's good And God's."

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

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"Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet."

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"How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!"

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"That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were."

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"Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years."

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"Any nose May ravage with impunity a rose."

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"The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead."

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"That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it; This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one,-- His hundred 's soon hit; This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That has the world here--should he need the next, Let the world mind him! This throws himself on God, and unperplexed Seeking shall find him."

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"God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations."

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"Oh their Rafael of the dear Madonnas, Oh their Dante of the dread Inferno, Wrote one song--and in my brain I sing it; Drew one angel--borne, see, on my bosom!"

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"They are perfect; how else?--they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?--we have time in store."

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"Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!"

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"In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now."

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"The sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea."

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"Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn."

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"The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride."

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"Of what I call God, And fools call Nature."

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"Thy rare gold ring of verse (the poet praised) Linking our England to his Italy."

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"A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one; And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all."

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"Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?"

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"The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,--no!"

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"The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness."

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"I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on."

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"How sad and bad and mad it was! But then, how it was sweet!"

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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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"How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change."

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"There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round."

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"Have you found your life distasteful? My life did, and does, smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I saved and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fail me, I 'll complain. Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again."

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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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"Was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day."

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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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"He who did well in war just earns the right To begin doing well in peace."

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