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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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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Blazing Descends Dull Earth Genius Insert Most Often Only Society Stone
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Book Currently Learn Love Nook Sequested Sweet
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Evil Failure Good However May Seem Succes Thing
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Firmness Greatest Mercy
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Bruise Child From Hard Heart Jacket Mend Soon Work
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
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Brought Give Itself Love Nit
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Enough Gate Knock Last Only Somebody Wake
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Art Counterfeit Counterpart Nature Reproduce
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
Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Gather Ground never Spit Together Water
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Attempt Done Earn Night Repose Sometimes
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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Army Author Challenge Critic Every Grand New Newspaper Sentence Station
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Gain Prize Purse Rapture Vanquish
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Again Already Come Consequently Himself Man More Suprise Time
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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Cold Every Know Man Often Only Sad Secret Sorrow Time World

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