Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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