The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSomething attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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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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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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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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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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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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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