Into each life some rain must fall.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMen 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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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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.
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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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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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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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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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