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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWEvery man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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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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