The flowering moments of the mind Drop half their petals in our speech.
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Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale.Oliver Wendell Holmes
People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way.
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It is something to make two blades of grass grow where only one was growing, it is much more to have been the occasion of the planting of an oak which shall defy twenty scores of winters, or of an elm which shall canopy with its green cloud of foliage half as many generations of mortal immortalities.
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Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll Leave thy low-vaulted past Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame?
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