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/ page 424 of 1205 /Resolve and thou art free.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
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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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Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
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Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!
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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 Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
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Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death.
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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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