“ The possession of superior talent creates more wishes than it gratifies. ”
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“ Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart! ”
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“ Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart! ”
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“ Vanity is often so excessive, that those who are compelled to walk on crutches would fain make us believe they are raised on stilts. ”
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“ A cheer, then, for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post; And like the lifeboat, proves a friend, When friends are wanted most. ”
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“ A cheer, then, for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post; And like the lifeboat, proves a friend, When friends are wanted most. ”
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“ Poets are the chemists of sentiment, for they analyze and purify it. ”
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“ The tear of sympathy never falls in vain; it waters and fertilizes the soil of the most sterile heart and causes it to flourish with the beautiful flowers of gratitude and love. ”
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“ A cheer, then, for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post; And like the lifeboat, proves a friend, When friends are wanted most. ”
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“ Better build schoolrooms for "the boy," than cells and gibbets for "the man.". ”
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“ Trust him with little who, without proofs, trusts you with everything. ”
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“ Those who pursue the stream of Truth to its sources have much climbing to do, much fatigue to encounter, but they see great sights. ”
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“ Great is the number of those who might attain true wisdom if they did not already think themselves wise. ”
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“ The span of life is waning fast Beware, unthinking youth, beware! Thy soul's eternity depends upon the records moments bear. ”
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“ Wisdom is a palace, of which only the vestibule has yet been entered. ”
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“ Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis "good works" make the man. ”
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“ He who cannot keep his own secret ought not to complain if another tells it. ”
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“ A cheer, then, for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post; And like the lifeboat, proves a friend, When friends are wanted most. ”
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“ Satire is a glass in which the beholder sees everybody's face but his own. ”
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“ Art is but a mirror, which gives back what is cast on its surface faithfully only while unsullied. ”
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“ Words are sometimes signs of ideas; sometimes of the want of them. ”
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“ Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart! ”
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