Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe 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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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 strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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