The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLove gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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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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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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Resolve and thou art free.
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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 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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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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 greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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