Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe 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.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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