Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWYouth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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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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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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