"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after."
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Hyperion”, p.66
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