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• Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!

  Emily Dickinson

  Beauty, Sight, Crowds

  Emily Dickinson (1955). “Poems: including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts”, Belknap Press

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• Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it,
  Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee,
  Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it,
  Not to partake thy passion, my humility.

  Emily Dickinson

  Pain, Passion, Heart

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2018, Delphi Classics

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• God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.

  Matthew Arnold

  God, School, Church

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• Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don't act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.

  Morgan Freeman

  Eye, Simple, Play

  "Morgan Freeman talks Unleashed!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 10, 2005.

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• May the Lord array thee in the garment of salvation and surround thee with the cloak of happiness.

  Pope Alexander VI

  May, Lord, Salvation

  Words inscribed upon the mantle of gonfalonier given to his son Cesare Borgia on March 29, 1499. "The Life of Cesare Borgia". Book by Rafael Sabatini, Chapter IV: "Gonfalonier of the Church", 1912.

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• Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky's brow my glorious creed I trace.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  God, Believe, Sky

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies”, p.16

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• The Autumn seems to cry for thee,Best lover of the Autumn-days!

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Best Love, Autumn, Lovers

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• If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Grief, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.55, Delphi Classics

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• Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any one will observe it; nor yet expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Plato, Events, Looks

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.66, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee For thou art worthy, Thou unassuming commonplace Of Nature, with that homely face, And yet with something of a grace Which love makes for thee!

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Art, Grace

  1802 'To the Daisy', stanza 1 (published 1807).

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• Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.

  William Wordsworth

  Sea, Land, Ties

  1804 'The Affliction of Margaret', stanza 8 (published 1807).

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• Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught,Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My Beloved, look on me;Turn me wholly unto Thee;"Be thou whole," say openly:"I forgive thee all.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Jesus, Fall, Compassion

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• Why dost thou not pray... to give thee the faculty of not fearing any of the things which thou fearest, or of not desiring any of the things which thou desirest, or not being pained at anything, rather than pray that any of these things should not happen or happen?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Giving, Praying, Should

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.104, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Imagination, Mind

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.42, Lulu.com

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• No longer let thy breathing only act in concert with the air which surrounds thee, but let thy intelligence also now be in harmony with the intelligence which embraces all things. For the intelligent power is no less diffused in all parts and pervades all things for him who is willing to draw it to him than the aërial power for him who is able to respire it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Intelligent, Air, Breathing

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.94, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.

  Bill Vaughan

  Ants, Pleasure, Graves

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• Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.

  Robert Herrick

  Tree, Despair, Cypresses

  'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'

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• I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Differences, Solitude

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.294

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• How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beautiful, Sunset, Land

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.666, Pearson Education

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• Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers.

  John Keats

  Flower, Hair, Wind

  'To Autumn' (1820) st. 2

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• I throw a kiss across the sea, I drink the winds as drinking wine, And dream they all are blown from thee, I catch the whisper'd kiss of thine.

  Joaquin Miller

  Dream, Drinking, Wine

  Joaquin Miller (1871). “Songs of the Sierras”, p.8

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• I, a pilgrim of eternity, stand before Thee, O eternal One. Let me not seek to deaden or destroy the desire for Thee that disturbs my heart. Let me rather yield myself to its constraint and go where it leads me. Make me wise to see all things today under the form of eternity, and make me brave to face all the changes in my life which such a vision may entail: through the grace of Christ my Saviour. Amen

  John Baillie

  Wise, Heart, Yield

  John Baillie (1952). “A diary of private prayer”, Scribner

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• Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee; All passeth away: God only shall stay. Patience wins all: Who hath God, needeth nothing; For God is his All.

  Thomas a Kempis

  God, Winning

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• Let thy vices die before thee.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Vices, Poor Richard, Dies

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.60, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Poor Richard, Knows

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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