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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMusic is the universal language of mankind.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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