Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMethod is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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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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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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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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