A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThere 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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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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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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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 love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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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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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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