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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWhen she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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