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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or ...more

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...nothing is more dangerous than solitude: there our imagination, always disposed to rise, taking a new flight on the wings of fancy, pictures to us ...more

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A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our ob...more

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There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and happy only if he h...more

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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

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Age merely shows what children we remain.

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All force strives forward to work far and wideTo live and grow and ever to expand;Yet we are checked and thwarted on each sideBy the world's flux and ...more

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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.