There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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