Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIt takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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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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