Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWShips that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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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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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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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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