A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMan 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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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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