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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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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 rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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 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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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

Blazing Descends Dull Earth Genius Insert Most Often Only Society Stone

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