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• Time marks us while we are marking time.
• What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?
• I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams…
• Being, not doing, is my first joy.
• I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I…
• Wake the happy words.
• Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.
• A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of…
• The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped.
• Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner.
• O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and the very…
• I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you…

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