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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWResolve and thou art free.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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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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