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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWI 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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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 mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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 greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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 human voice is the organ of the soul.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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