Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWhoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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.
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