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Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.

For the world was built in order Around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Peace has its victories, but it takes a brave man to win them.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life." - Ralph Waldo Emerson,

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

The true poem is the poet's mind.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

The finest poetry was first experience.

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.