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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLet 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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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In character, in manner, 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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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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