Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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