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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.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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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Always Combine Courtesy Golden House Intelligence Often Room Wooden
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Benefit Devotion Enemy Fold Hand Intension Man Strength Whoever
Into each life some rain must fall.
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Each Fail Into Life Must Some Train
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Firmness Greatest Mercy
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Evil Failure Good However May Seem Succes Thing
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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Achieve Any Do Fate Heart Labor Learn Let Purse Still Us Wait
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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Al Behind Depart Footprint Great Live Make Men Remind Sand Time
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Anvil Either Hammer Man Must World
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Enough Gate Knock Last Only Somebody Wake
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Darker Drawn Nearer Night
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Cail Heart Illusion Trust World
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Begin Difficult Know Love Movement
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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Another Darkness Ocean Pass Shown Signal Silence Speak
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Address Age Another For Itself Less Opportunity Through Youth
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Change Must Something Strange Thing
Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Affection never Talk Waste

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