As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWPeople demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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