Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWTherefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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