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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWFame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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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 mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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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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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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