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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLet us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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