Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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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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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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