Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWPeople demand freedom only when they have no power.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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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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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.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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.
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