Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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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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