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All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it.
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The length of man's life, which is endless to the brave and busy, is scorned by his ambitious thought.
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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
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Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.
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All life that is not merely mechanical is spun out of two strands: seeking for that bird and hearing him.
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the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing
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It may consist with perpetual failure, and find exercise in the continued chase.
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Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.
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To ask to see some fruit of our endeavour is but a transcendental way of serving for reward; and what we take to be contempt of self is only greed of hire.