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No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

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In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.

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A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus!

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To the mass of mankind - meaning also womankind - marriage may be the only possible thing; but to the individual, it may be the one thing impossible.

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Everyone ought to wish to marry; some ought to be allowed to marry; and others ought to marry twice - to make the average good.

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A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.

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There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.

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What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of life and circumstance which make no impression on a man in his own land until he returns to it after a prolonged absence, and then they stand out very sharply for a while.

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Everywhere on the Continent, the tourist is looked upon as a bird to be plucked, and presently the bird himself feebly comes to regard plucking as his proper destiny and abjectly holds out his wing so long as there is a feather left on it.

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If you chance to live in a town where the authorities cannot rest until they have destroyed every precious tree within their blighting reach, you will be especially charmed by the beauty of the streets of Portsmouth.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: November 11th, 1836

Died: March 19th, 1907

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