There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWPerseverance 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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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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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 dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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