Evil is only good perverted.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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The 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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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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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