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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe 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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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