A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIn character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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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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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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