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 LONGFELLOWJoy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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