Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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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.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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