Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMethod is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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