Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWResolve and thou art free.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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 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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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