Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe 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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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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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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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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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