Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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