Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSimplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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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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