Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe 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.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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