Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMorality 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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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