In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWOnly 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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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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