In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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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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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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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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