In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLook not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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