The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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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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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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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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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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Let us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
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Trust no future, however pleasant
Let the dead past bury its dead
Act, - act in the living Present
Heart within and God overhead.
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