There are two classes of poets the poets by education and practice, these we respect and poets by nature, these we love.
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Every wall is a door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The intellectual man requires a fine bait the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The studious class are their own victims they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption --pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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