The human voice is the organ of the soul.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIf 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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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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 strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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