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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

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An intellectual hatred is the worst.

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Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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How can we know the dancer from the dance?

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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

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In dreams begins responsibility.

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I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.

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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

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I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

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I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

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The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

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You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

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And say my glory was I had such friends.

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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

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But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

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Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

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