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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.
Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.
The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.
Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.
The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.
Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.
One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world.
To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.
The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.
Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!
All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.
The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.
Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.
To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.
That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.
Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.