It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLike a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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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 single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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