Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIt is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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