Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe 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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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