"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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.“
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."
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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 and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"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."
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"Music is the universal language of mankind."
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"Resolve and thou art free."
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-C. S. Lewis
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"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."
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"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."
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"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."
-David Herbert Lawrence
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