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 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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Resolve and thou art free.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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