We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWShips that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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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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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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