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 LONGFELLOWResolve and thou art free.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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