The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Quotesmemo.com

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Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

Aim, Gains, Love, Pain, Vanity

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Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.

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Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

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After I began working, I realised there's no end line. I believe that money has nothing to do with your personal success. On the face of it, I'm the biggest capitalist of all. I have all the riches. I'm the living proof of what stardom should be in material terms. But I've never sold my soul. I've not done anything which I didn't want to do. I've not done films for money. I'm not saying this with arrogance but I've never asked for a film.

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