The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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 heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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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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