The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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