Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWGive what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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Into each life some rain must fall.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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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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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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