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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.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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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 rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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