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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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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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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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