The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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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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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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