In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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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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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 counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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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 greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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