The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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