Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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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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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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