It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWHowever things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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