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William Butler Yeats
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths
Enwrought with gold and silver light.
The Wind Among the Reeds, 1899, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
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Robert Browning
Lose who may I still can say,
Those who win heaven, blest are they!
One Way of Love
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Henry Longfellow
'Do not fear! Heaven is as near,'
He said, 'by water as by land!'
Sir Humphrey Gilbert, 1849
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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