Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLook not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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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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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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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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