I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWEach morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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