Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWhoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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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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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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