Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMost people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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