There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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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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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 rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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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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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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