In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIt is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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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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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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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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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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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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