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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWTalk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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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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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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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