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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIntelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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