If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWEach morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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