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One only right we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.
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Be loving, and you will never want for love be humble, and you will never want for guiding.
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A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be and women do suffer therefrom, in all its infinite varieties: loss by death, by faithlessness or unworthiness, and by mistaken or unrequited affection.
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Autumn Into earth's lap does throw Brown apples gay in a game of play, As the equinoctials blow.
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Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains, Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea, Pour forth thy vials like streams from airy mountains, Draughts of life to me.
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An author departs he does not die.
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When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.
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Why cannot one always do, not only the right thing, but at the right time?
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God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.
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What small account The All-living seems to take of this thin flame Which we call life. He sends a moment's blast Out of war's nostrils, and a myriad Of these our puny tapers are blown out Forever.
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