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.
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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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 difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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