The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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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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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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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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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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