Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAs to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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