Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe nearer the dawn the darker the night.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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 sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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