Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSimplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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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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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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