Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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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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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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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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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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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