We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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