Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLives 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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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