It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLives 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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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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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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