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 rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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