Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWNot in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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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.
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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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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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