Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.James Russell Lowell
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world.
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Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
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Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the 'Faery Queen.'
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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