Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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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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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.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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