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 LONGFELLOWSomething attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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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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