In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWA single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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