Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWShips that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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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 character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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