Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThere is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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