Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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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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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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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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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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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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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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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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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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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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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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