Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSpilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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