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The mind-is not the heart.I may yet live, as I know others live,To wish in vain to let go with the mind-Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tell...more

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects ...more

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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the wor...more

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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

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So was I once myself a swinger of birches.And so I dream of going back to be.

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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themsel...more

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

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For, dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true?Cling to it long enough, and not a doubtIt will turn true again, for so it goes....more