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 LONGFELLOWTherefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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