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Since I have felt the sense of death,
Since I have borne its dread, its fear — Oh, how my life has grown more dear
Since I have felt the sense of death!
Sorrows are good, and cares are small,
Since I have known the loss of all.
Helen Hoyt
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Into the statue that breathes, the soul of the sculptor is bidden.
Richard Realf
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Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.
Ivan Bunin
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The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.
Ameen Rihani
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I know you—a glance, and what you are
Sits-by-the-fire in my heart.
My Limousine-Lady knows you, or
Why does the slant-envy of her eye mark
Your straight air and radiant inclusive smile?
Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adoring.
Anne Spencer
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The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.
Charles Tennyson Turner
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Nature-study if it is to be possible must begin, and if it is to be fruitful must end, in something which is not strictly the study of nature, but which we call Philosophy.
T. W. Rolleston
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Oh! sing it in the light of freedom's morn,
Tho' tyrant wars have made the earth a grave;
The good, the great, and true, are, if so born,
And so with slaves, chains do not make the slave!
Albery Allson Whitman
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An albatross wheeling in circles, Sails with a wing to the clouds and a wing to the touch of the billow...
Sidney Royse Lysaght
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Electricity is the perpetual life motion of all material existence. It prevents stagnation and decay, and renews all changing forms and substances. By its positive and negative energy acting and reacting it produces and controls all the movements of visible and tangible things.
George Woodward Warder
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When nothing was, then God was there,
Had nothing been God would have been;
My being has defeated me,
Had I not been, what would have been.
Ghalib
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Tis late; the astronomer in his lonely height Exploring all the dark, descries from far Orbs that like distant isles of splendor are.
Sully Prudhomme
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There's nothing in the world (that is in Trinity) To make us poets happy; — I detest Your Hebrew, Greek and heathenish Latinity, And Mathematics are a bore at best.
John Moultrie (poet)
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Those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.
Marthe Bibesco
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But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making warmth shiver in ague fits. I think Shakespeare never errs in his logical sequence in character. He surprises us, seems unnatural to us, but because we have been superficial observers; while genius will disclose those truths to which we are blind.
William Alfred Quayle
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Man's evolution from the brute Affords him, with so many gains, Life, liberty and the pursuit Of peak-time buses, trams and trains.
Frederick Macartney
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I was like one who, having discovered the ancient Eden still existing in all its primitive glory, should resolve to enjoy it in solitude, and never betray to mortal the secret of its locality. The rod of my life was bent at this moment. I destined myself to be a microscopist.
Fitz James O'Brien
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A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell, A jelly-fish and a saurian, And caves where the cave-men dwell; Then a sense of law and beauty And a face turned from the clod — Some call it Evolution, And others call it God.
William Herbert Carruth
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As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What dreams have these to hide from death!
Lola Ridge
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The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.
Alfred Kreymborg
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Did you ever hear
Of the frolic fairies dear?
They're a blessed little race,
Peeping up in fancy's face,
In the valley, on the hill,
By the fountain and the rill;
Laughing out between the leaves
That the loving summer weaves.
Frances Sargent Osgood
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Followers of trails and of seasons, breakers of camp in the little dawn wind, seekers of watercourses over the wrinkled rind of the world, o seekers, o finders of reasons to be up and be gone....
Saint-John Perse
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Spring sits and shivers at the porch of light : April goes weeping on her road to May.
John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley
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I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.
John Henry Mackay
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A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows.
John Hall Wheelock
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