Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWPerseverance 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.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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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 rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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 sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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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