Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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There 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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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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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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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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