“That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.”
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“No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself.”
“Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings.”
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
“It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.”
“Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.”
“The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”
“Tell me not, in mournful numbers, life is but an empty dream!”
“Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal.”
“But to act, that each to-morrow finds us further than to-day.”
“Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime.”
“Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.”
“I heard the trailing garments of the Night sweep through her marble halls!”
“I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.”
“Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.”
“A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.”