Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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