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- Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.
- He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him…
- The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe…
- The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.
- Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in…
- It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to…
- The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself…
- Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.
- Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his…
- It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in…
- Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice…
- A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty.
- O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing.
- He hath awakened from the dream of life.
- To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
- February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams…
- I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their…
- ...’tis He, arrayed In the soft light of his own smiles, which spread Like radiance from the cloud-surrounded moon....
- Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to…
- It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek…
- If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!
- Men must reap the things they sow, Force from force must ever flow.
- Worlds on worlds are rolling ever From creation to decay, Like the bubbles on a river Sparkling, bursting, borne away.
- "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul; who are conscious of…
- True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing…
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