Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWTalk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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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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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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