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for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

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Ouida
Age: 69 †
Born: 1839
Born: January 1
Died: 1908
Died: January 25
Novelist
Writer
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
Marie Louise de la Ramée
Marie Louise Ramé
Marie Louise de la Ramee
Marie Louise Rame
Poetry
Hear
Sound
Sights
Artist
Sounds
Art
Gift
Others
Sight
Cannot
Except
Poet

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Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
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Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
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Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.
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When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.
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Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.
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Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth.
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The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.
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Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
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Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
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There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.
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Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.
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Emulation is active virtue envy is brooding malice.
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Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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