The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWEvery 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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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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