The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper.George Santayana
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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
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The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed.
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The little word is has its tragedies it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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