We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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