The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIt takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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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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