A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThere 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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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 nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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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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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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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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