Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

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Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

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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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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

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All writing is a form of prayer.

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I have so much of you in my heart.

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To silence gossip, don't repeat it.

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The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

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