For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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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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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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