We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWA torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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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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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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