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 LONGFELLOWFor his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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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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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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