Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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