In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe 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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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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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 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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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