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" Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. "
Robert Browning
Your
Mind
Measure
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" Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not. "
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" The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. "
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Strength
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Way
Possible
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Life
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Man
" Never the time and the place and the loved one all together! "
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Together
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" Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. "
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You
Sympathy
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