Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWMethod is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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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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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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