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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIf you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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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 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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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