If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWNot in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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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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Resolve and thou art free.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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