Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThere is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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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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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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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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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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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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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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