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,
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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Resolve and thou art free.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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