Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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