Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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