Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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