Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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