"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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"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.“
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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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-Vladimir Lenin
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"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."
-Eric Hoffer
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"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
-John Lennon
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
-Edmund Burke
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
-Sigmund Freud
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