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The half of music, I have heard men say,
Is to have grieved; when comes the lonely wail
Over the mind.

— Stephen Phillips Poems (1897)

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The love that shall not weary, must be art.

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How good it is to live, even at the worst!

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It is the fault of dreamers to fear fate.

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She hath no skill in living—but to love.

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I would not take life but on terms of death,
That sting in the wine of being, salt of its feast.

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