If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAs to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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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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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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 greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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