The holiest of holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart
The secret anniversaries of the heart.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate
Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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