People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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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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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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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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