The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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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 human voice is the organ of the soul.
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