If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWHe that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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