Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSimplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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 human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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