- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
- Conscience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
- Intensity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
- Glory
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- Nov 07, 2020
And say my glory was I had such friends.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
- Ceaseless
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020