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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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Affection Cu=Ity Feel Great Man Neighbourhood Safe Security Street Sweet
There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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Consciousness First Flutter Holler Life Love Nothing Sixteen Wing
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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All Disarm Each Enemy Enough History Live Man Read Secret Sorrow Suffer
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Again Back Come Improve Look Mournful Past Present Thine Wisely
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Already Capable Dfeel Do Judge Other Ourselves Sone
Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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Build Strong Sure Today
The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Dawn Distant Eternal Love Night Not Starless
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Being Country Feminine Like Masculine Mingles Only Perfect Poem Rhyme Structure
Evil is only good perverted.
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Evil Good Only Pervert
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Attempt Done Earn Night Repose Sometimes
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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Begun Close Each Evening Morning See Some Task
Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Error Man Sometimes Virtue We May Learn
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Always Combine Courtesy Golden House Intelligence Often Room Wooden
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Benefit Devotion Enemy Fold Hand Intension Man Strength Whoever
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Human Organ Soul Voice
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Come Deserve Destiny Fame Inevitable

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