While tenderness of feeling ...

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.
While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.
 James Russell Lowell

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
 Herb Kelleher
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
 James Russell Lowell
That best academy, a mother's knee.
 James Russell Lowell
A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.
 James Russell Lowell
There is something magnificent in having a country to love.
 James Russell Lowell
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.
 James Russell Lowell