Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWFor 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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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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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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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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