I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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 life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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