The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.

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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

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

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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

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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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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Driftwood; Table Talk (1857)
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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

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

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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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