Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLet us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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