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 LONGFELLOWIf you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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