Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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 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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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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