He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWNot in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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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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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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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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