Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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