Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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