Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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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 strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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