Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAmbition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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