The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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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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