There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAmbition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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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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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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Resolve and thou art free.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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