They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMost people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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 mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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