Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWPeople demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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There 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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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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