Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWA torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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 is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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