 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Country life - 1839 - 234 pages
...unfulfilled. Better for them, and for the world in their example, had they known how to wait ! Believe me, the talent of success is nothing more than doing what...well ; and doing well whatever you do, — without a thought of fame. If it come at all, it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...unfulfilled. Better for them, and for the world in their example, had they known how to wait! Believe me, the talent of success is nothing more than doing what...well ; and doing well whatever you do, — without a thought of fame. If it come at all, it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Fiction - 1848 - 316 pages
...unfulfilled. Better for them, and for the world in their example, had they known how to wait! Believe me, the talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do,—without a thought of fame. If it comes at all, it will come because it is deserved, not because... | |
 | 430 pages
...unfulfilled. Better for them, and for the world in their example, had they known how to wait ! Believe me, the talent of success is nothing more than doing what...; — and doing well whatever you do, — without a thought of fame. If it come at all, it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...unfulfilled. Better for them, and for the world in their example, had they known how to wait. Believe me, the talent of success is nothing more than doing what...can do well, and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame. If it come at all, it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1864 - 1126 pages
...always willing, fulfilling his task, " that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion." The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, without a thought of fame. If it comes at all, it will come because it is deserved, not because it... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 604 pages
...unfulfilled. Better for them, and for the world in their example, had they known how to wait. Believe me the talent of success is nothing more than doing what...can do well, and doing well whatever you do without a thought of fame. If it come at all, it will come because it is decreed, not because it is sought... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...unfulfilled. Better for them, and for the world in their example, had they known how to wait. Believe me is earnest, And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art. to dust returnest, Was a thought of fame. If it come at all, it will rome because it is decreed, not because it is sought... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1881 - 792 pages
...— delighful to man and wellpleasing to God — riee up forever and ever! SUCCESS. — Believe me, the talent of success is nothing more than doing what...can do well, and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame. If it comes at all, it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Europe - 1851 - 376 pages
...unfulfilled. Better for them, and for the world in their example, had they known how to wait ! Believe me, the talent of success is nothing more than doing what...can do well, and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame. If it come at all, it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought... | |
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Believe me, the talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, — without a thought of fame. 
