Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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Resolve and thou art free.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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 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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