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Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky, Earth's jest a dusty road.


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O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.



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I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.



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Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.



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Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.



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What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?



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To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.





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