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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
Art
Gift
Others
Sight
Cannot
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Poet
Poetry
Hear
Sound
Sights
Artist
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It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
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Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
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It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
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One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
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The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
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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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Youth without faith is a day without sun.
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Excess always carries its own retribution.
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you have not a boat of your own, that is just it that is what women always suffer from they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.
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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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You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration.
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Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.
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Emulation is active virtue envy is brooding malice.
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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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It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.
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Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.
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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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We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel.
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