It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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 must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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