If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIn this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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 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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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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