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Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
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Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....
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'Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
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Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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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 to disarm all hostility.
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Learn to labour and to wait.
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We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
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Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
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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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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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Let us, then be up and doing,
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Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
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Joy, temperance, and repose,
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All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
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To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
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