In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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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 best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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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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