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- A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our… Air
- The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration… Call
- O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried! Afflicted
- Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars,… Blue
- The morrow was a bright September morn; The earth was beautiful as if newborn; There was nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration in the air,… Air
- Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews and shadows and… Beautiful
- You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another. Cannot Say
- Truly, this world can get on without us, if we would but think so. Self
- Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just All
- Don't cross the bridge til you come to it. Bridge
- Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike. Childlike
- Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With… Aspiration
- What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months,… Arbitrary
- It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life. Drenched
- A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to… All
- No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving. Giving
- I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where. Air
- Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. Ah
- The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of… Bursting
- Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it. Dew
- Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky… All
- As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me. All
- Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like… Affection
- The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward… Art
- Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs. Finally
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