However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.
All things come round to him who will but wait.
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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.
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
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.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
The present is the blocks with which we build.
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none cap pierce.
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.
Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.
Every dew - drop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it.
How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
Let the dead past bury its dead!
It is difficult to know at what moment love beings; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and deary.
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.
Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Every human heart is human.
Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think.
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
Be noble in every thought And in every dead!
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning.
Thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep.
Men of genius are ofter dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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.
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resemble the rain.
It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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