He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAll things must change to something new, to something strange.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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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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