Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWhen she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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