I think I'd like you better, Star,
If you were not so high and far,
So many friendly things are found
Quite near the ground.
I wonder if I saw you near
Would you appear
So very fine; I hope you would
Be just as pretty, bright, and good—
Not like...
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This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,
Sails the unshadowed main,—
The venturous bark that flings
On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings
In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,
And coral reefs lie bare,
Where the cold sea-maids rise...
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One of life’s best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between inconvenience and a problem.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, or if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem.
Everything else is an inconvenience....
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Begin each day by telling yourself… today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will and selfishness.
All of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.
But for my part, I have long...
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Every single day I get emails from aspiring writers asking my advice about how to become a writer, and here is the only advice I can give:
Don’t make stuff because you want to make money, it will never make you enough money.
Don’t make stuff...
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Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –
We passed the School,...
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There is cause for many stings,
In the way some folks do things,
Some go at it "hammer 'n' tongs,"
Some with curses, some with songs;
But to each some trait belongs,
Some have soured on everything,
Can't find aught without a sting,
There are...
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Could we but draw back the curtains
That surround each other's lives,
See the naked heart and spirit,
Know what spur the action gives,
Often we should find it better,
Purer than we judged we should,
We should love each other better,
If we only...
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An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide,
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to...
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On New Year's day you started in
With heart of grace absolved from sin,
With forward look, with purpose true,
And all the world was fair to you.
But soon the devil found a crack
And pierced your armor, front or back;
And soon, your conduct past...
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