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 LONGFELLOWFame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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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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