If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWe judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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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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