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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.

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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 w...more

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A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

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Trust no future howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.

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Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait.

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Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty dream!

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No one is so accursed by fate No one so utterly desolate But some heart though unknown Responds unto his own.

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I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

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Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fa...more

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I have you fast in my fortress,And will not let you depart,But put you down into the dungeonIn the round-tower of my heart.And there will I keep you f...more

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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;So on the ocean of life, we pass...more

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It is the mystery of the unknownThat fascinates us; we are children stillWayward and wistful; with one hand we clingTo the familiar things we call our...more

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Tell me not in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem.