If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWBuild today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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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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