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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Change Must Something Strange Thing
It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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Crown Grace Helicon Many Mouldering Muses Old People Person Poet Sunshine Too Visit
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Come Contact Large Leave Liberal Mind Other Scholar Would
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Defeat Ourselves People Plaudit Shout Throng
There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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All Mind Poetic Poetical Pure Thing
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Firmness Greatest Mercy
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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All Disarm Each Enemy Enough History Live Man Read Secret Sorrow Suffer
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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Affection Cu=Ity Feel Great Man Neighbourhood Safe Security Street Sweet
Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Affection never Talk Waste
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Demand Fredon No People Power When
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Being Country Feminine Like Masculine Mingles Only Perfect Poem Rhyme Structure

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