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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAs to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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