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.

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"Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"Then followed that beautiful season…Summer…Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"Softly the evening came with the sunset."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."

- Tony Robbins

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"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

- Beverly Sills

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."

- Aristotle

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"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

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"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

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