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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.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

Evil is only good perverted.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

A man's character is his fate.

Nothing endures but change.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Change alone is unchanging.

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Big results require big ambitions.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

The sun is new each day.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.