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 LONGFELLOWA thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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