The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMan 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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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