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"Prose: words in their best order, poetry: the best words in the best order."
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"Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it."

"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."

"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."

"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite."

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
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"Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean."


"In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission."


"The one red leaf, the last of its clan,That dances as often as dance it can,Hanging so light, and hanging so high,On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky."


"Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also."
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