Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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