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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIn this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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