He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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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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Not 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 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 mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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