Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWhoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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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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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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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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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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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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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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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Resolve and thou art free.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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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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