Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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