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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAll things come round to him who will but wait.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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