If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLove gives itself; it is not bought.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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