It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWBuild today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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The heights by great 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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Evil is only good perverted.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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