They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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