Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
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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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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