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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.

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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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

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Into each life some rain must fall.

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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

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Resolve and thou art free.

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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

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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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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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Evil is only good perverted.

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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. 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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