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• "The man who consecrates his hours By vig'rous effort and an honest aim, At once he draws the sting of life and death; He walks with nature and her paths are peace."
  By: Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night II, l. 187)
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• "The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength and skill."
  By: William Wordsworth, She Was a Phantom of Delight
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• "Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray."
  By: William Wordsworth, Character of a Happy Warrior (l. 72)
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• "But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover."
  By: William Wordsworth, Character of a Happy Warrior (l. 48)
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• "One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave."
  By: William Wordsworth, A Poet's Epitaph (st. 5)
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• "These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together,--manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance and manly self-reliance."
  By: William Wordsworth
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• "Only the shallow know themselves."
  By: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
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• "Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still."
  By: John Greenleaf Whittier, Daniel Neall (II)
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