Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold,

Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

~Robert Frost

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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"What lies behind us, and what lies
before us are small matters
compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." | Albert Schweitzer

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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." | Thomas Edison

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"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them." | Orison Swett Marden

"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes." | Andrew Carnegie