“Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger”
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“Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger”
“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us; footprints on the sands of time.”
“Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to the truth”
“There's nothing in this world as sweet as love, and next to love the sweetest thing is hate. ”
“The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart”
“O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its silken wings. ”
“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain ”
“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity”
“Age is opportunity no less than youth itself”
“He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels”
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak”
“Resolve and thou art free”
“Good-night! Good-night! as we so oft have said beneath this roof at midnight, in the days that are no more, and shall no more return. Thou has but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays to cover up the embers that still burn. ”
“It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar”
“A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain”
“Music is the universal language of mankind”
“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun”
“Kind hearts are the gardens, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the flowers, kind deeds are the fruits. Take care of your garden and keep out the weeds, fill it with sunshine, kind words and kind deeds”
“Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!”
“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think”