"The purpose of that apple tree is to grow a little new wood each year. That is what I plan to do."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Growth, Nature, Life, Development

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"The purpose of that apple tree is to grow a little new wood each year. That is what I plan to do."

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"Tomorrow is the next step in life-not the next stop in life."

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"Everyone has greatness in them! To bring it out, we just have to empower them."

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"Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns."

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"Quit allowing negativity to block the positive gifts which are meant for you along with the hard lessons and tribulations."

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"Keep your goal challenging enough that you have to change to achieve it."

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"The decisions of citizens either in matters of private business or political life of the nation, are directly related to the prevailing value system of the nation."

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"Convert your knowledge into product."

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"Your challenge in life does not define you but only refines you."

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"Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads."

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"The heights by 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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"They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer."

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"Lull me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful soundSeems from some faint Aeolian harp-string caught;Seal up the hundred wakeful eyes of thoughtAs Hermes with his lyre in sleep profoundThe hundred wakeful eyes of Argus bound;For I am weary, and am overwroughtWith too much toil, with too much care distraught,And with the iron crown of anguish crowned.Lay thy soft hand upon my brow and cheek,O peaceful Sleep! until from pain releasedI breathe again uninterrupted breath!Ah, with what subtile meaning did the GreekCall thee the lesser mystery at the feastWhereof the greater mystery is death!"

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