We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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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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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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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