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 LONGFELLOWResolve and thou art free.
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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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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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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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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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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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