Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
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.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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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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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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