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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.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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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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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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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Come Contact Large Leave Liberal Mind Other Scholar Would
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Being Country Feminine Like Masculine Mingles Only Perfect Poem Rhyme Structure
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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 you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Error Man Sometimes Virtue We May Learn

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