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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWGo forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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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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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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