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"A thought often makes us hotter than a fire."
"Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend."
"Ah, how skillful grows the hand that obeyeth love's command! It is the heart and not the brain that to the highest doth attain, and he who followeth love's behest far excelleth all the rest."
"All things must change to something new, to something strange."
"And yet not turn your back upon the world."
"Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture."
"Evil is only good perverted."
"Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny."
"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."
"He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce."
"I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn."
"In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer."
"Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find."
"Into each life some rain must fall."
"Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose."
"Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong."
"Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; dust thou art, to dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul."
"Love gives itself; it is not bought."
"Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak."
"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."
"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."
"Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"
"Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."
"People demand freedom only when they have no power."
"Resolve and thou art free."
"Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!"
"Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose."
"Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues."
"That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain."
"The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art."
"The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy."
"The heights by great men reached and keptWere not obtained by sudden flight,But they, while their companions sleptWere toiling upward in the night."
"The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air."
"The nearer the dawn the darker the night."
"The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain."
"The secret anniversaries of the heart."
"The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
"There is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love - the first fluttering of its siken wings."
"Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom."
"To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution."
"Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead."
"When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music."
"Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion."
"Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out."
"Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!"
"Youth comes but once in a lifetime."
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