Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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If 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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Resolve and thou art free.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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