Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe 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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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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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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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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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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