In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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 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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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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