Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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 foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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Into each life some rain must fall.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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