That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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