People demand freedom only when they have no power.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWhenever 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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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