"Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead."
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"The nearer the dawn the darker the night."
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"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."
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"Love gives itself; it is not bought."
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"Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels."
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"The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers."
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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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"Every man has his secret sorrows."
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"We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time."
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"Look, then, into thine heart, and write!"
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"Youth comes but once a life time. Perhaps, but it remains strong in many for their entire lives."
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"Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other."
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"Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai."
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"The sea hath its pearls The heaven hath its stars But my heart, my heart Has its love."
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"Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close."
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"I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn."
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"Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion."
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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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"Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think."
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"I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument."
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