Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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 thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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