Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWHowever things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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