The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWHe that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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