In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIt takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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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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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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