Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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