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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

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Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

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Love gives itself; it is not bought.

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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 27th, 1807

Died: March 24th, 1882

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