The human voice is the organ of the soul.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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