Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWBy dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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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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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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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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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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