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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWEvery man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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 greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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Resolve and thou art free.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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