If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThere 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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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