Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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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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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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