Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIt is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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 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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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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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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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