Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWhenever 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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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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 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 sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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