When anyone remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then his modesty is real
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The gaurdian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.Jean Richter
True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.
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Let prayer be the key of the day, and the bolt of the night
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It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope
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Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent
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