A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWI have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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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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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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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