The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIt is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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