I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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