However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSimplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Let 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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Evil is only good perverted.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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