She confused being spartan with being charitable, and gave away her possessions without truly doing good with them.
She confused being sick with being brave, and suffered agonies while imagining she merited praise for it.
She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think.


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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
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Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
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To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
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Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
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who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
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for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
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I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
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Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
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"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
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The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
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and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
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I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
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Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
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Progress is a comfortable disease.
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Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
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Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
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next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
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he sang his didn't he danced his did
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
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and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
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