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 LONGFELLOWThe 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.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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