A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLook not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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 is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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