Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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