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Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

Reckless of my mortality,
Strengthen me to behold a face,
To know the spirit of a beloved one
Yet to endure, yet to dare!

O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!

It takes life to love life.

But a man can never avenge himself on the monstrous ogre Life.

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

In time you shall see Fate approach you
In the shape of your own image in the mirror.

To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one.

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

Work for your own soul's sake.

Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

There is no marriage in Heaven, but there is love.

Such phantom blossoms palely shining
Over the lifeless boughs of Time.

He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.

Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.

And then I knew I was one of Life's fools,
Whom only death would treat as the equal
Of other men

Back of every soldier is a woman.

The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished;
And what is love but a rose that fades?

This is life's sorrow:
That one can be happy only where two are;
And that our hearts are drawn to stars
Which want us not.

The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun!

To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.

The weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well.

Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines.

Remember the acorn;
It does not devour other acorns.

The tongue may be an unruly member
But silence poisons the soul.

The much-sought prize of eternal youth
Is just arrested growth.

There is something about Death
Like love itself!