I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe 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.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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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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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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