Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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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 strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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