It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe 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 nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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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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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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