The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAmbition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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Into each life some rain must fall.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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 enough to disarm all hostility.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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