They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAs to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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