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,
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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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 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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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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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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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