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 LONGFELLOWEvery 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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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 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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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