Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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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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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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