All things must change to something new, to something strange.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIf you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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 Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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 human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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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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