Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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 mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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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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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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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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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