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 LONGFELLOWBuild today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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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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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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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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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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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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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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