If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSimplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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