Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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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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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Man 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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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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