Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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 torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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