To silence gossip, don't repeat it.

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Stop and consider! life is but a day

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All writing is a form of prayer.

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I don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever

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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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I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.

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Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego

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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

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A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

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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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