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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWFame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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 strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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