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" The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal. "
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Night
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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. "
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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. "
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" For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. "
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" A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. "
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" Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. "
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