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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIn this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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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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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW