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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWNot in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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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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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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