Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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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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In character, in manner, 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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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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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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