There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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