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,
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIf 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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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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