Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWhen she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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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 dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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