Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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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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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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