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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWTalk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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