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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSimplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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.
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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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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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