Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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