Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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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