Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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 greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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Into each life some rain must fall.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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