"The human voice is the organ of the soul."
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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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"Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again."
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"How wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man is enthroned visibly on his forehead and in his eye, and the heart of man is written on his countenance, but the soul, the soul reveals itself in the voice only."
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"Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week."
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"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
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"Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose."
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"How beautiful is the rain! After the dust and the heat, In the broad and fiery street, In the narrow lane, How beautiful is the rain!"
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"The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls."
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"The Mormons make the marriage ring, like the ring of Saturn, fluid, not solid, and keep it in its place by numerous satellites."
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"Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate."
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"There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together."
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"A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain."
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"To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution."
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"Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend."
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"I am the Angel of the Sun Whose flaming wheels began to run When God's almighty breath Said to the darkness and the Night, Let there be light! and there was light."
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"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."
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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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"Youth comes but once in a lifetime."
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"For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old."
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