Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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 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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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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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