Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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 must change to something new, to something strange.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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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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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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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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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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