Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWe judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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Into each life some rain must fall.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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