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.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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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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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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