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So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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A minute’s success pays the failure of years.
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The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o’er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
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I count life just a stuff to try the soul’s strength on.
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Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
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God is the perfect poet.
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Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
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White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life’s business being just the terrible choice.
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
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If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
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Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
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It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
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Finds progress, man’s distinctive mark alone, Not God’s, and not the beast’s God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
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Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?