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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAll things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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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 rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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