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"There was an old belief that in the embersOf all things their primordial form exists, And cunning alchemistsCould re-create the rose with all its membersFrom its own ashes, but without the bloom, Without the lost perfume Ah me! what wonder-working, occult scienceCan from the ashes in our hearts once more The rose of youth restore?What craft of alchemy can bid defianceTo time and change, and for a single hour Renew this phantom-flower?"
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"We cannot reform without focusing on God and His principles."

"People who have been initiated 'broke through in what felt like breaking down'."

"All changes are born within."

"Anyone who accepts Jesus into his heart and believes Him always becomes great."

"Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love."

"A rose's beautiful scent is extracted only when it is crushed."

"Small caterpillars still become big butterflies."

"When a rock transforms into a diamond, lesser stones will not speak of its beauty, but speak of its unpolishedness."

"He'd changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped short. He look like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year."

"Knowledge acted upon makes all the difference, produces the different results we have in life."
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"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."

"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."

"I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets."

"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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