It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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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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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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