Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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Evil is only good perverted.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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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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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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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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