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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 Longfellow

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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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Clamor Crowd Defeat Not Ourselves Plaudut Shout Street Throng
Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Affection never Talk Waste
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Attempt Done Earn Night Repose Sometimes
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Freedom Man Out Servitude Take Thought
Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Another Darkness Ocean Pass Shown Signal Silence Speak
By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Bead Crow Drop Golden Hand Kill Manage Near Passer Snake
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Begun Close Each Evening Morning See Some Task
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Al Behind Depart Footprint Great Live Make Men Remind Sand Time
Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Beter Gove May Somebody Think
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Enough Gate Knock Last Only Somebody Wake
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

All Mind Poetic Poetical Pure Thing
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Again Forth Fountain Return Send Which
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Brought Give Itself Love Nit
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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Crown Grace Helicon Many Mouldering Muses Old People Person Poet Sunshine Too Visit
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Do Explain Right Take Thing Time
A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Fire Hotter Make Often Thought

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