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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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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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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Into each life some rain must fall.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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