Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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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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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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