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Sidney Lanier has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
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If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
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When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces,…
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Music is love searching for a word.
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Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea.
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But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in…
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Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am…
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I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a…
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If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a…
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Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the…
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Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and…
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Music is love in search of a word.
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Life, as a part, is interwoven with the life of the whole, not only present, but past and future, for while men…
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God of our fathers, you chose Abraham and his descendants to bring your name to the nations: We are deeply saddened by…
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If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a…
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No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with…
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To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
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For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual…
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...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There…
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Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his…
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