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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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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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 sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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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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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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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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