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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMan 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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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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Into each life some rain must fall.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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