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• Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom…
• The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it…
• Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may…
• Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.
• O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One.
• To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what…
• Life is not life at all without delight.
• Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.
• All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.
• A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different…
• The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.
• Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions.

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