The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWEach morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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