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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 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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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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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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Darker Drawn Nearer Night
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Art Every Goeth Grace Heart Unto Work
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Gather Ground never Spit Together Water
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Again Forth Fountain Return Send Which
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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Better Clark Cold Keep Love Out

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