We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWA single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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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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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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