If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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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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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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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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