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There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon.
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Compassion in the highest degree is the divinest form of religion.
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N]o mirror keeps its glances.
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Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers,Floats in the midst, a little cloud at tether.
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O daisy mine, what will it be to lookFrom God's side even of such a simple thing?
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The majority can tell ordinary truth, but they should not trust themselves for truth extraordinary.
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R]ight language enlarges the soul as no other power or influence may do.
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T]here is something graver than to be immortal, and that is to be mortal.
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I make the whole world answer to my art.
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I came from nothing; but from whereCome these undying thoughts I bear?
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emsp; I am dark but fair,Black but fair.
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I run, I run, I am gathered to thy heart.
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Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.
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Childhood is but change made gay and visible.
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Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
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The worst of all reasons for continuing anything is that it is easily continuable.
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London visibly works at nothing but transformation.
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I]t is doubtful whether we may name any weak thing as typically spiritual.
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From the shaken towerAnd go with the hour.
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Flocks of the memories of the day draw nearThe dovecote doors of sleep.
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Children appeal to us by a variant of the quality of pathos.
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I]t would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.
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T]he sense of humour has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
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A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.
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What else, indeed, should mediocrity be but widespread, anywhere?
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This moment's Tiber with his shining eyes Never saw Rome before.
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