Into each life some rain must fall.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWA single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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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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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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