The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIt is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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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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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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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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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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