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.
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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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