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'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' -- that is allYe know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul
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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affection and the truth of imagination.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.
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I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
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I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
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Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
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The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.
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