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,
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMusic is the universal language of mankind.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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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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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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