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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWEvil is only good perverted.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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 strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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