Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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 a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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,
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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 strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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