Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.James Russell Lowell
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side Some great cause, God's new Messiah offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet Lessen like sound of friends' departing feet And Death is beautiful as feet of friend Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
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