Music is the universal language of mankind.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMen 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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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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