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.
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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study 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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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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