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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThere is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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In 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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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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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