They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWhen she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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