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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThey who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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