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,
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWNot 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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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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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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