Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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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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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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