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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love

"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

Awareness

"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

Inspiration

"Softly the evening came with the sunset."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"The effort you invest today is the pride you feel tomorrow."

- Unknown

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"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

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"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

- Harry Golden

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"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job."

- Michael Larsen

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"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."

- Colin Powell

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